Irlam and Cadishead War Memorial

First and Second World War memorial, 1949, designed by Henry Nurse, incorporating a bronze figure by John Cassidy which was removed from an earlier First World War memorial.

MATERIALS: York stone podium, pedestal and walls, with a bronze figure and plaques. DESCRIPTION: the memorial comprises a central rectangular ashlar pedestal, with a plain plinth and frieze, and a stone plaque on the dado which is inscribed: THEIR / NAME / LIVETH / FOR / EVERMORE. The pedestal is surmounted by a plain ashlar plinth, upon which is mounted a bronze allegorical Winged Victory figure standing on a globe, carrying a bouquet of flowers cupped in her left hand close to her side and a palm branch in her extended right hand.

The pedestal is flanked on each side by an ashlar wall with a plain plinth and a moulded cornice, fronted by a low ashlar wreath stand. The wall to the left is inscribed 1914-1918 and has two bronze plaques attached, each is decorated by palm leaves and reads: IN / MEMORY / AND / PERPETUAL HONOUR / OF THE BRAVE MEN OF / IRLAM AND CADISHEAD DISTRICT / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 (NAMES). The wall to the right is inscribed 1939-1945; it also has two bronze plaques attached decorated with matching palm leaves, one reads: IN / MEMORY / AND / PERPETUAL HONOUR / OF THE BRAVE MEN OF / IRLAM / WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR / 1939-1945 (NAMES), and the other reads: IN / MEMORY / AND / PERPETUAL HONOUR / OF THE BRAVE MEN OF / CADISHEAD / WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR / 1939-1945 (NAMES). The whole memorial is raised on a two-step ashlar podium, with a crazy-paving upper surface.