Marlborough War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 2016. War memorial.
Marlborough War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- endless-storey-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A war memorial cenotaph of interwar date, extended and restored in 2014.
MATERIALS: of ashlar stone on a composite stone base with bronze plaques.
DESCRIPTION: the war memorial is a cenotaph on a square two-stepped base. The cenotaph has wide joints and to the front (south-east) face is a bronze plaque with a Classical entablature and which reads: 1914-1918/ IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF MARLBOROUGH/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR/ THEIR COUNTRY./ NAMES. To each side are smaller bronze wing panels that read: IN MEMORY OF/ THE/ MEN OF/ MARLBOROUGH/ WHO LAID DOWN/ THEIR LIVES FOR/ THEIR COUNTRY/ 1939-1945/ NAMES. The elements of 2014 date are not of special interest*.
- Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that these aforementioned features are not of special architectural or historic interest.
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 23 February 2017.
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