Melton Constable War Memorial

First World War memorial, erected in 1922, with a Second World War addition. It was designed in the office of Mr W Marriott, Engineer and Traffic Manager of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway Company, and was manufactured in Melton Constable's railway works.

MATERIALS: it is constructed from cast concrete blocks.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands outside the former village school (dated 1896) on the north side of Briston Road. It takes the form of a neoclassical-style cenotaph comprised of a tall, square-sectioned concrete pillar. The pillar is supported on each side by buttress piers surmounted by ornamental scrolled consoles. It is capped by a moulded entablature with the frieze inscribed with the date '1914 - 1918'. A carved laurel wreath which originally rested on the blocking course above the frieze has now been lost. On the south face is a bronze plaque inscribed: 'TO OUR / GLORIOUS DEAD / [Names] / THEIR NAME FOR / EVER LIVETH'. The whole stands on a three-stepped base which is curved at the front.

The former school boundary walls and railings which enclose the memorial on its east, west and south sides are not of special interest and are therefore excluded from the listing.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 February 2018.