Great Crosby and Blundellsands War Memorial

MATERIALS: Hopton Wood stone, with a metal and glass light.

DESCRIPTION: Great Crosby and Blundellsands War Memorial is located in the Garden of Remembrance in Alexandra Park, on Coronation Road. The memorial, c 5m tall, is formed of a broad, corniced, obelisk raised on a base and surmounted by a basin and electric lamp. It is approached by flagstone paths lined with brick borders including short flights of three steps to the front, rear and sides.

At the top of the obelisk the lamp rises from a stilted basin. Running around the foot-ring of the basin is an inscription which reads THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVER MORE. The ornamented feet of the four stilts stand on a two-stage capstone, the lower stage of which is ornamented with centrally-placed palmettes.

A carved Greek key band faces the cornice and the obelisk, square on plan, has rosettes at each corner of each face. The principal dedicatory inscription on the front face of the obelisk, in leaded letters, reads TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ OUR/ GLORIOUS/ DEAD/ PRO PATRIA 1914 – 1918. Commemorated names are listed on the other three faces. The front face of the square base is ornamented with fasces and a shield, carved in low relief, with below AND THOSE WHO FOLLOWED/ 1939 – 1945. The base stands on a polygonal step.

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, 27 January 2017.