Silvertown War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Newham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1999. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Silvertown War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- moated-string-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1999
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/01/2017
TQ 48 SW 251/4/10046
SILVERTOWN NORTH WOOLWICH ROAD ROYAL WHARF Silvertown War Memorial
(Formerly listed as Silvertown War Memorial, NORTH WOOLWICH ROAD, SILVERTOWN)
II
War memorial. c1920. Limestone. Square section entactic pier made of 4 stones on a circular plinth. Ogee-section base; top with one laurel wreath to each face, each in a segmental-headed field over a reeded base. Inscriptions as follows. East face: To the glorious/memory of the/men from these/works who fell/in the Great War/1914-19. Then 7 names recorded. North face: blank. West face: And to the memory/of those who whilst/serving their country/by making TNT /perished in the/explosion in these/works. January 19th/1917. 18 names appended. S face: Also/to the memory/of those who/fell in the/Second World War/1939-1945. 7 names engraved. The west face commemorates the 73 people killed in the Silvertown TNT factory explosion of 1917 caused by a fire which reached the explosives store.
The war memorial was moved to its current location in 2016.
Listing NGR: TQ4085079843
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, 16 February 2017.
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