War Memorial at South End of Memorial Drive
WAR MEMORIAL AT SOUTH END OF MEMORIAL DRIVE, GREEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256215
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial at South End of Memorial Drive
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL AT SOUTH END OF MEMORIAL DRIVE, GREEN ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256215
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial at South End of Memorial Drive
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL AT SOUTH END OF MEMORIAL DRIVE, GREEN ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL AT SOUTH END OF MEMORIAL DRIVE, GREEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2851837151
Details
LEEDS
SE23NE GREEN ROAD, Meanwood
714-1/6/965 (North East side)
War Memorial at south end of
Memorial Drive
GV II
Memorial to First World War. c1920, altered to include
memorial to fallen of Second World War. By AR Powys. For
Walter Rowley. Hammer-tooled gritstone base, timber-framed and
weather-boarded shelter with stone slate roof supporting a
bronze crucifix. The underside of the canopy is plastered and
decorated with gold stars on a white ground; blue enamel in
Christ's halo.
The lower part of the rear wall of the shelter has carved
lettering: 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN PERPETUAL HONOUR OF
THE MEN/ OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-18',
list of 46 names, 'FORGET NOT THOSE WHO DIED THAT WE MIGHT
LIVE/ EVEN SO DID CHRIST/ MR WALTER ROWLEY OF ALDER HILL
MEANWOOD GAVE THIS MEMORIAL/ HIS NEPHEW FELL AT
VILLERS=BRETONNEUX, 24 APRIL 1918 RIP'. A bronze plaque added
to the stone base lists 46 names of those who died in the
1939-45 war.
AR Powys was brother of the then vicar of Holy Trinity Church
and a long-time secretary of the Society for the Protection of
Ancient Buildings.
Listing NGR: SE2851837151
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, 31 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465157
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 31 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/22164
War Memorials Online, accessed 31 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/101928
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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