War Memorial At South End Of Memorial Drive

LEEDS

SE23NE GREEN ROAD, Meanwood 714-1/6/965 (North East side) War Memorial at south end of Memorial Drive

GV II

Memorial to First World War. c1920, altered to include memorial to fallen of Second World War. By AR Powys. For Walter Rowley. Hammer-tooled gritstone base, timber-framed and weather-boarded shelter with stone slate roof supporting a bronze crucifix. The underside of the canopy is plastered and decorated with gold stars on a white ground; blue enamel in Christ's halo. The lower part of the rear wall of the shelter has carved lettering: 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN PERPETUAL HONOUR OF THE MEN/ OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-18', list of 46 names, 'FORGET NOT THOSE WHO DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE/ EVEN SO DID CHRIST/ MR WALTER ROWLEY OF ALDER HILL MEANWOOD GAVE THIS MEMORIAL/ HIS NEPHEW FELL AT VILLERS=BRETONNEUX, 24 APRIL 1918 RIP'. A bronze plaque added to the stone base lists 46 names of those who died in the 1939-45 war. AR Powys was brother of the then vicar of Holy Trinity Church and a long-time secretary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

Listing NGR: SE2851837151

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, 31 January 2017.