War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gilded-frieze-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST THE GREEN (south side),LANGTON GREEN 7/494 War Memorial
GV II
War Memorial. Circa 1919 with an extra plaque added 1946. Sandstone ashlar. Tall Gothic-style cross in memory of those killed in the First World War. Tall and slightly tapering octagonal shaft with moulded cap with cross sitting on top. Its own shaft has small gabled buttresses and cross itself a kind of fleuree design. Main shaft in a chamfered socket stone on a tall pedestal with moulded top. Its corners are chamfered. Wider chamfers at top enriched with shields carved with Sacred Emblems and it tapers below through a stop to a narrower chamfer. The plaque on the south side praises the dead of the First World War and plaques on the other sides record their names. Pedestal on an octagonal 4-step plinth on a paved base. A brass plaque on the top step has been set in to commemorate the local dead of the Second World War.
Listing NGR: TQ5435539273
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, 1 December 2016.
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