Kingsbridge and Dodbrooke War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 2016. War memorial.
Kingsbridge and Dodbrooke War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- heavy-chapel-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A First World War memorial, dating from 1924-5, altered after the Second World War.
MATERIALS: stone, granite and Italian marble.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial takes the form of a statue of Hope, shown with her anchor, on a moulded and carved base, which stands on a tall, square-section plinth with deeply-moulded cap and foot. The faces of the plinth are set with polished granite plaques bearing inscriptions picked out in gold lettering: TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN / OF KINGSBRIDGE AND DODBROOKE / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES / AS A RESULT OF THE / GREAT WAR 1914-1918 / DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI / followed by the names of the 68 soldiers who had died in the conflict/ 1939-1945 / followed by the names of 30 soldiers and 16 of the civilians who had lost their lives in the Second World War. The memorial stands on a three-stepped platform of rough-faced granite, within an area of paving.
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