Coleorton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 2019. War memorial.

Coleorton War Memorial

WRENN ID
tired-stair-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North West Leicestershire
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 2019
Type
War memorial
Source
Historic England listing

Description

A First World War memorial, built 1922; altered after the Second World War.

MATERIALS Limestone.

DESCRIPTION Coleorton War Memorial is located in the centre of a triangular green at the road junction of Farm Town Lane and Ashby Road. It comprises a stone Latin cross with cusped edge-decorations and moulded terminals to the arms. It has a tapering hexagonal shaft on a four-sided plinth with chamfered edges, and a square base with round-canted edges and corners. The whole is surrounded by a low stone kerb.

The plinth bears the inscriptions in incised lettering which reads: IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF THIS PLACE / WHO FELL IN / THE GREAT WARS/ 1914-1918 / AND / 1939-1945/ followed by the names of those who were lost and the year that they fell, and THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE inscribed beneath.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 April 2023 to correct two references in selected sources.

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