Postal Workers' War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 2014. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Postal Workers' War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- odd-remnant-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 2014
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
War memorial to postal workers, 1920.
MATERIALS: Portland stone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial is in the form of an aedicule with Ionic columns and a broken semi-circular pediment. It frames a stone tablet inscribed with the names of 130 men. Within the tympanum is a gilt wreath and sword, inscribed within: ‘PRO PATRIA / ET LIBERTATE; a plaque beneath is inscribed: TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF / OUR HEROIC COMRADES WHO FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919. The base is inscribed: ‘SUBSCRIBED FOR AND ERECTED BY THEIR COLLEAGUES / OF THE WESTERN POSTAL DISTRICT / AS A LASTING TRIBUTE TO THEIR SELF-SACRIFICE’. The plinth has a metal plaque commemorating those lost in the Second World War, inscribed ‘1939-1945’ with the names of 56 men.
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, 16 February 2017.
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