WAR MEMORIAL C15 YARDS TO EAST OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

WAR MEMORIAL C15 YARDS TO EAST OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SWANLOW LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329843
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL C15 YARDS TO EAST OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL C15 YARDS TO EAST OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SWANLOW LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329843
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL C15 YARDS TO EAST OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL C15 YARDS TO EAST OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SWANLOW LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL C15 YARDS TO EAST OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SWANLOW LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Winsford
National Grid Reference:: SJ 64034 65862

Details

WINSFORD FORMER U.D. SWANLOW LANE SJ 66 NW 4/110 War Memorial c 15 yards to East of The Congregational Church. - GV II War Memorial. Dated 1920. Yellow sandstone ashlar with grey granite plaques. Square base of two steps supporting moulded plinth to square body with cyma moulded cornice. This supports a square block on which is set a circular cast iron lamp stand decorated with foliage in relief. Twisted ladder supports to sides and hexagonal lantern above. Eastern front has inscribed upon the second step GREAT EUROPEAN WAR 1914-1919 and on the base GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

Above this is a small granite plaque inscribed 1939-1945 with the names of two men. Above on the main body of the monument is a larger rectangular granite plaque inscribed IN LOVING MEMORY with lists of those who died, those missing and those who died in camp. Above this in the frieze is inscribed THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES. The North side has engraved in the cornice FOR GOD AND FREEDOM and below IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF THE SERVICE OF and a list of names with below at the base of the plinth FOR HE SHALL GIVE HIS ANGELS/CHARGE OVER THEE TO KEEP/THEE IN ALL THY WAYS. West front: in the frieze THEY GAVE THEIR SERVICE, with a list of names below on a granite plaque and on the base O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD FOR HE IS GOOD/FOR HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOREVER. On the south side in the cornice, THEY RISKED THEIR LIVES and on the base GOD IS OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH/A VERY PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE

Listing NGR: SJ6403465862

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, 26 January 2017.

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War Memorials Online, accessed 26 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/157674
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10040

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.