Knutsford Centennial War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 2019. Memorial.
Knutsford Centennial War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- final-loft-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 2019
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A private memorial statue of 1919, relocated in the 1930s and 1977 and installed on its present war memorial plinth in 2018, and designed and sculpted by Sir William Hamo Thornycroft and cast by the Albion Art Foundry Ltd.
MATERIALS: bronze statue, black granite plinth.
DESCRIPTION: the figure is life-size at 1.72m tall. It depicts Haron Baronian in service dress advancing with his rifle slung over his right shoulder, surveying the landscape and with his left hand raised to shade his eyes. The front face of the bronze base is inscribed PRO PATRIA. The left face is inscribed HARON BARONIAN/ KILLED IN ACTION/ IN MESOPOTAMIA/ 1917. The right face is signed HAMO THORNYCROFT RA/ SC 1918. The rear face is inscribed ALBION ART FOUNDRY LTD/ PARSONS GREEN/ SW.
The sculpture stands on a black granite plinth with two-stepped base, dating from 2018 and carrying war memorial inscriptions.
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/10/2019
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