Description

771/0/10089
11-DEC-03

KNOCKHOLT
MAIN ROAD
War Memorial

GV
II

War Memorial. Completed in 1923. Stone memorial with bronze relief. It comprises a square stone column, battered to the base with moulded cornice and pedimented cap with laurel wreath, moulded plinth, the whole standing on two stone steps. The panel facing the street has a bronze relief depicting a First World War soldier wearing a backpack with helmet attached to it, facing right and standing in a mourning pose supporting his rifle. The plinth is inscribed: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ LOVING AND EVER GRATEFUL/ REMEMBRANCE OF THE/ MEN OF KNOCKHOLT/ WHO FOUGHT AND DIED/ FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918. The left panel has the names of those who fell in the First World War, including Major Alexander Malins Lafone VC, and the right side those who fell in the Second World War. The rear panel is blank.

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, 30 November 2016.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670170

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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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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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)