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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