War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, UPPER SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350327
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-2002
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, UPPER SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350327
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-2002
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, UPPER SQUARE
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, UPPER SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Forest Row
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 42477 35178
Details
FOREST ROW
995/0/10086 UPPER SQUARE
11-NOV-02 War Memorial
GV II
Also Known As: War Memorial, LEWES ROAD
War memorial. Built in 1920, sculptor E G Gillick. Funded by public subscription. Sandstone memorial about 18 feet in height. Takes the form of a tapering pier with moulded plinth and roll-moulded cornice. Above the cornice on two sides there are plain crosses under a crocket and the other sides have carved young angels bearing blank tablets. The cornice at the top of the pier bears the dates 1914, 1918, 1939 and 1945 and the inscription on the plinth reads "IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN OF FOREST ROW WHO DIED FOR ENGLAND IN THE GREAT WARS." The pier and part of the plinth carry the names of the Fallen.
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, 1 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490137
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 1 December 2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/106651
War Memorials Register, accessed 1 December 2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/17284
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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