Boer Wall Memorial Approximately 40 Metres North Of Chapel Of Sedbergh School is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1999. War memorial.
Boer Wall Memorial Approximately 40 Metres North Of Chapel Of Sedbergh School
- WRENN ID
- fallow-basalt-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1999
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SEDBERGH
SD6591 LOFTUS HILL, Sedbergh Town 162-1/20/403 (West side) Boer War Memorial approx. 40m north of Chapel at Sedbergh School
GV II
War memorial. Probably c1902-5. Commemorates 8 former pupils of Sedbergh School who died in the second South African War (1899-1902). Red sandstone. Square plan. Four-step plinth, square base with lettered panel in each side, square tapered shaft with chamfered corners, chamfered cornice and wheel cross. The panels on the base each have 2 bands of raised lettering in Arts-and-Crafts style giving the names and units of the fallen, with the dates and places of their deaths (one of them awarded the Victoria Cross).
Listing NGR: SD6578791815
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, 3 February 2017.
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