War Memorial In Front Of John O'Gaddesden'S House

LITTLE GADDESDEN LITTLE GADDESDEN SP 9913 (East side)

9/189 War Memorial - in front of John O'Gaddesden's House

GV II

War memorial. 1920-21. Concept and some of materials brought from Italy by Mrs. Wheatley cousin to Lady Brownlow and wife of Lord Brownlow's agent. Red brick piers, plinth and coping over tile creasing, plastered panels, limestone inscribed slabs in side panels, carved Italian stone centrepiece in Renaissance style with 2 applied inscribed veined marble slabs. Terracotta octagonal panels in balustrade each side. Red pantiled lean-to hood on moulded S-curved wooden brackets. War memorial to both Wars in the form of a wayside shrine with hooded centrepiece and side panels with quadrant swept copings. Low balustraded wall to each side with 2 rows of terracotta wreathed roundels on octagonal blocks. Central feature has rounded head with carved soffit 2 bracketed stages and Renaissance carved panelled pilasters. (Senar(1983)87).

Listing NGR: SP9927213380

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, 14 March 2017.