Great Longstone

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Reference WMO/109360

Address:

Main Street/Station Road junction

Great Longstone

DE45 1TZ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Metal Iron
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A square sandstone pillar with decorative top, pedestal and base within a fenced compound. The tapered pillar has a recessed panel on each face bearing the incised inscriptions in upright mixed case gothic lettering and the names in upright capital block lettering. The pillar has a frieze at the top with various incised designs including rosettes, oak leaves, a cross and a crown. Above the frieze is a square moulded capital with a repeated design of acanthus leaves around the edge. The pillar surmounts a square moulded pedestal with further foliage designs around the upper part and a plain frieze below, some faces of which bear further inscriptions. The plain square base has a bevelled top and the whole is founded on a concrete surface with a bounding fence comprising eight square sandstone obelisks linked by a wrought iron chain.
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6 o'clock face: Erected/ in Honoured/ Memory of/ the Men of/ GREAT/ LONGSTONE/ who gave their/ ALL in the/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ LIBERTY/ OUR GLORIOUS DEAD 9 o'clock face: (Names)/ 1939 - 1945/ (Names)/ Their name liveth for evermore 12 o'clock face: Greater love/ hath no man/ than this./ that a man lay/ down his life/ for his friends 3 o'clock face: (Names) 1939-1945/ (Names)/ Faithful unto death

WW1- Hubert B Dixon, Herbert Elliot, George Furniss, James Hewitt, Stanley Jeffcoat, Arthur Morton, Fred Morton, Harold Robinson, Robert Robinson, Fred Cowen Slack, Frank Suter, Arthur Ward, John Ward. WW2- William E Hamilton, Richard H Hurst, Robert S C Plowright, James R Timm, John Waring.

Grade II (England)

1334973

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