War Memorial

LANCASTER

SD4761NE NELSON STREET 1685-1/7/197 (South side (off)) War Memorial

GV II

War memorial. Dedicated in 1924. Sandstone ashlar and bronze. A simple screen wall rising in steps to a taller central section against which stands a bronze statue representing Victory - a winged woman crowned with a laurel wreath and carrying a palm frond. To either side, under the inscribed text in Roman lettering: IN HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF LANCASTER/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919, are 5 tall recessed panels of bronze, bearing the names of the more than 1000 men (including 63 sets of brothers) who died. In front of the statue, and slightly lower, is a stone tomb-chest flanked by square bronze vases which bears on bronze plates on its top the names of the 300 or so who died in the Second World War, and in Korea, with, on the front, the dates 1939-1945.

Listing NGR: SD4790861530

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.