War Memorial

WAR MEMORIAL, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1139210
Date first listed:
12-Mar-1986
Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL, MAIN ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1139210
Date first listed:
12-Mar-1986
Statutory Address 1:
WAR MEMORIAL, MAIN ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL, MAIN ROAD

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

District:
Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Moulton
National Grid Reference:
SJ 65689 69668

Details

MOULTON C.P. MAIN ROAD
SJ 66 NE
5/78 War Memorial
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- II
War memorial. c1920. Yellow ashlar sandstone base with marble statue
above. Road front: chamfered plinth with rusticated rockwork above
and base above inscribed "Unveiled by Captain W H France-Hayhurst JP /
December 18th 1920". Above is a tapered body inscribed with the names
of the dead with cyma-moulded cornice above. Swept plinth rising to
statue showing soldier standing at ease and leaning against a
shattered tree-trunk.


Listing NGR: SJ6568969668


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.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
57360
Legacy System:
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Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10010
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/113375

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