Fordham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1984. War memorial.
Fordham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- ruined-ashlar-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1984
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The memorial comprises a Doric column of Portland stone, originally surmounted by a bronze statue of St George by Sir George Frampton RA and since the 1990s by a fibreglass replacement by Robert Donaldson. The column rises from a two-stage square plinth, itself set on a two-stage square base. Overall, the memorial is 6m tall. Inscriptions on the upper stage of the plinth read:
(South): OUR/ GLORIOUS/ DEAD (West): MCMXIV (East): MCMXIX
The names of the fallen of both wars are inscribed on all four sides of the lower plinth.
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/10/2015
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, 13 January 2017.
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