Description

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BARDON MILL
War Memorial

08-FEB-06

II
War Memorial, 1920. Granite and sandstone. Celtic cross; crosshead and shaft defined by rolled rope motif edging; crosshead with Celtic interlace and carved stone bosses, shaft bears three rectangular panels with Celtic knot and animal interlace carving and equal armed cross. Stepped rectangular plinth in three parts.

On front reads: IN MEMORY OF/ THOSE FROM THIS DISTRICT/WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR/RIGHT AND FREEDOM/HOME AND COUNTRY/IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 (NAMES) THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.

Inscriptions on sides reads: ALSO THOSE/ WHO FELL IN THE /SECOND GREAT WAR/1939-1945 (NAMES).

Rectangular two-stepped stone base.

Sources: North East War Memorials Project ref 33739

This First World War memorial with Second World War additions is in the form of a decorated Celtic cross and commemorates the 29 local people who died in two World Wars. It was unveiled in 1921. Listed Grade II.

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, 9 February 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670853

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)