War Memorial With Surrounding Railings

MEDLAR WITH WESHAM GARSTANG ROAD SD 43 SW junction with WEETON ROAD 9/42 War Memorial with surrounding - railings

• II

War memorial, early 1920's. Limestone pedestal and statue, iron railings on sandstone base. Memorial has square plinth, tapered pedestal with recessed panels, and a moulded cornice, on top of which is a statue of a soldier in a cap standing with his hands resting on the butt of a rifle with muzzle to the ground. East panel of pedestal lettered "IN/MEMORY OF/THE/MEDLAR AND WESHAM/HEROES/WHO FELL/IN THE/WORLD WARS/1914-1918/AND/1939-1945/THEIR NAMES SHALL/LIVE FOR EVER"; other 3 panels lettered with the names. Small elongated enclosure with rounded ends, simple iron railings each of the long sides having 3 ornamental panels with heart-shapes at the top. (Victorian iron gaslamp standard, with altered lantern, inside the enclosure, is not included in the item).

Listing NGR: SD4174232915

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, 2 February 2017.