Biggin-by-Hartington War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. War memorial.

Biggin-by-Hartington War Memorial

WRENN ID
low-spandrel-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Country
England
Type
War memorial
Source
Historic England listing

Description

A First World War memorial erected in 1921, with later additions for the Second World War.

MATERIALS: constructed from pink granite.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial is in the form of an obelisk on a pedestal with a bevelled top, both of polished pink granite. The pedestal sits on a dressed stone plinth of unpolished pink granite with a chamfered edge. The base of the memorial is rough-hewn pink granite.

There are engraved and gilded inscriptions on three sides of the monument which read as follows:

North-west face; Obelisk: IN/ HONOUR/ OF/ THOSE WHO/ FELL FOR/ LIBERTY IN/ THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918 

Pedestal: (four names; First World War)

North-east face; Obelisk: 1939-45 (two names)

Pedestal: (two names; First World War)

South-west face; Obelisk: 1939-45 (two names)

Pedestal: (two names; First World War)

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