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.
Detailed Attributes
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.