Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW COLLEGE STREET
620-1/17/187 (West side)
19/08/99 First World War Memorial
(Formerly Listed as:
COLLEGE STREET
(West side)
First War Memorial)

GV II

War memorial. c1919. Limestone ashlar. Gothic Revival style.
Octagonal base has 7 steps to octagonal plinth with cusped
tracery to panels embellished with shields with regimental
coats of arms; above a band with fleurons; battlements;
surmounted by shaped base to octagonal shaft with surmounting
cross with foliate decoration. Inscribed to steps: 'The
county/ to her sons who gave their lives in the Great War/
1914 1918/ and to her sons and daughters/ who fell in the
Great War of/ 1939 1945'. A significant streetscape feature,
forming part of the setting of Cathedral Church of Christ and
St Mary (qv).

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 14 March 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669161

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)