Ilkley War Memorial Gardens


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Reference WMO/264429

Address:

Grove Road

Ilkley

LS29 9PD

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Garden
Materials:
  • Flora and Fauna Flora and Fauna (any)
Lettering: No lettering
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: War Memorial gardens, originally designed as a location for the WW1 cenotaph, and now also containing the WW2 memorial- WMO/197927 and 264202 respectively. The garden is bordered by The Grove to the east, Grove Road and Kings Road to the south, The Grove's junction with Bolton Bridge Road to the north and Parish Ghyll stream to the west. Opened 23 July 1922 by Colonel J H Hastings and Captain Thomas Harold Broadbent Maufe VC (who was later accidentally killed during the Second World War by mortar practice), and Dedicated 23 July 1922 by Arthur W T Perowne, Bishop of Bradford. From English Heritage-The garden, which is approximately 3,286 sq. m in area, has an irregular hexagonal shape with the narrowest part at the east end and the second narrowest part at the west end bordering Parish Ghyll stream. Ilkley Memorial Gardens was designed by the London architect John James Joass and was laid out in 1922. In 1919 Ilkley War Memorial Committee held an architectural competition and invited designs for the erection of a First World War memorial and the laying out of memorial gardens at the west end of The Grove, Ilkley's main street, on a parcel of land that had been bought by Joseph Cooper of Norwood House and donated to Ilkley District Council. The architect Walter Brierley of York was appointed as assessor and the designs were not to exceed £3500. Seven designs were submitted and the selected winner was John James Joass of London, whose design of an urn-topped cenotaph accessed via three avenues and surrounded by flower beds and seating was described by Brierley as being 'dignified, evenly proportioned, and scholarly'. The design also included provision for a crescent of 'artistic trees' behind the cenotaph (in the location of the Second World War memorial), but historic photographs do not appear to show these and it appears unlikely that this was implemented. The memorial was erected in 1922 and the gardens were laid out at the same time.
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Grade II (England)

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