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Latitude: 51.7623 / 51°45'44"N
Longitude: -0.7438 / 0°44'37"W
OS Eastings: 486789
OS Northings: 207810
OS Grid: SP867078
Mapcode National: GBR D3L.JRH
Mapcode Global: VHDVD.2Y3Y
Plus Code: 9C3XQ764+WF
Entry Name: War Memorial
Listing Date: 26 April 2004
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390846
English Heritage Legacy ID: 491478
ID on this website: 101390846
Location: Wendover, Buckinghamshire, HP22
County: Buckinghamshire
Civil Parish: Wendover
Built-Up Area: Wendover
Traditional County: Buckinghamshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Buckinghamshire
Church of England Parish: Wendover
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
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WENDOVER
569/0/10031 MANOR WASTE, HIGH STREET
26-APR-04 War Memorial
GV II
War Memorial. 1922, designed by Gerard Cogswell. Chilmark stone. The memorial comprises an octagonal base of red brick with stone quoins, with a triple-stepped superstructure supporting a square pedestal with projecting corners in the manner of a chest tomb. Above is a tall, tapering octagonal shaft bearing an open shrine at the top, with crocketed finials to the corners and a cruciform finial above.
HISTORY: the war memorial was proposed by Major Edwin Smith, Lord of the Manor, who gave a site on the Manor Waste for this purpose. Designed by Cogswell, a London architect, it took the form of a medieval wayside cross of the sort recently treated in Aymer Vallance's book 'Old Crosses and Lychgates' (1920). Carved by Gething & Co of Salisbury at a cost of £278, it was unveiled by the Marchioness of Lincolnshire, wife of the Lord Lieutenant, whose son had fallen at 2nd Ypres. Listed for its historic interest as well as its visual quality.
SOURCE: Ian Toplis, 'Wendover War Memorial' (1991 leaflet).
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, 11 January 2017.
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