Beck Row War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 2018. War memorial.
Beck Row War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sunken-brick-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beck Row War Memorial is a tall memorial made of Portland stone, located on a small grassed area at the junction of The Street and Lamble Close. It features a tall obelisk set on a low square plinth, which has a three-stage base.
The main inscription appears on the south-west face of the plinth, engraved on a granite plaque set into the Portland stone. It reads: "FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE/ THIS MEMORIAL WAS/ ERECTED IN GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF THE MEN/ OF BECK ROW/ HOLYWELL ROW/ AND WILDE STREET/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914–1919/ AND/ WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945/ THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ THEIR SPIRITS TO GOD."
Names of those commemorated from the First World War are listed on granite plaques set into the sides of the plinth and the upper stage of the base. The names from the Second World War are on a similar plaque on the base, and the name of a civilian, Martha Brightwell, is incised into the middle stage of the base.
The memorial is surrounded by a small square area defined by paving and gravel, with four corner posts that support a chain.
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