GRETTON

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Reference WMO/103352

Address:

Winchcombe Road

By Winchcombe to Tewkesbury Road

Gretton, Gloucs

GL54

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Composite
Materials:
  • Stone Limestone
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Fountain, modified to become memorial. 1883 and 1918. Limestone, enclosing walls replaced in artificial stone, and paving plain concrete slab. A quad- rilobed fountain with stubby quadrilobe column base to stiff leaf and ball flower caps set in basin with round edge top and cavetto base; this later capped by square obelisk brought to square plinth with high relief moulded decoration. The whole set on concrete octagonal base, and in enclosure walled with artificial stone, faced at street two rock-faced stone piers to cross gabled round-headed caps and chamfered case: the cap stones also repeated in six other points round top of wall. Enclosure formerly railed. Set in back wall a rectangular stone panel with inscription: This fountain was/erected in December 1883/by/Col The Honourable/E Lc W Forester/for/the benefit of the/poor of Gretton. The obelisk also bears the names of those in the parish who fell in the Great War. C Historic England Listing entry Opposite the Village Hall
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Grade II (England)

1091490

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