Crimea Monument In Lancaster Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. War memorial.
Crimea Monument In Lancaster Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- eastward-shingle-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LANCASTER
SD46SE QUERNMORE ROAD 1685-1/1/250 (North side (off)) Crimea Monument in Lancaster Cemetery
II
Crimean War memorial. c1860. Carboniferous limestone. An obelisk, standing on 3 deep steps and consisting of a square plinth and tapering shaft set on a square base. Each face of the plinth is topped by a Grecian pediment. On the west side the base of the shaft is inscribed 'CRIMEA', and the plinth is inscribed: 'TO THE IMPERISHABLE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS, NATIVES OF LANCASTER AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WHO FELL IN THE RUSSIAN WAR, A.D. MDCCCLIV.V.VI. THIS MONUMENT ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTIONS IS DEDICATED.' On other faces are inscribed the names of those soldiers who died.
Listing NGR: SD4918961969
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.
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