War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 2008. Monument. 2 related planning applications.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lesser-pillar-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 2008
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
RIXTON WITH GLAZEBROOK
23/0/10003 HOLLINS GREEN 06-MAR-08 War Memorial
II War memorial, c.1920, sandstone. WWII inscription added later. Square column on square base and plinth surmounted by cross.
Flat square plinth. Square column base with inverted cavetto moulding at feet. Band around top of base reads 'Remember those men/of Hollinfare who/gave their lives in/the Great War 1914-1919'. East elevation displays names of 12 men. West elevation displays '1939.1945' and names of 3 men. Memorial sits upon traffic island enclosed by black and gold iron bollards.
HISTORY: Memorial commemorates the men of Hollinfare who who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: An elegant war memorial with inscribed base and square column surmounted by a cross commemorating local soldiers who fell during the First and Second World Wars.
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.
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