Wiveliscombe Memorial Recreation Park Obelisk and Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 2016. Memorial. 1 related planning application.
Wiveliscombe Memorial Recreation Park Obelisk and Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- winding-bailey-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The commemorative obelisk, square sectioned and tapering, is c3m high, of coursed, rusticated, Old Red Sandstone quarried in Ford, a mile NE of Wiveliscombe. It stands on a two-stage stepped base. A tin containing contemporary objects is buried under the memorial. Inset are stone tablets inscribed (first panel) THIS/ WAR MEMORIAL/ RECREATION GROUND/ OPENED ON 3RD JUNE 1920/ WAS PROVIDED BY/ PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ OF THE INHABITANTS OF/ WIVELISCOMBE (second panel) TO/ THE GLORIOUS/ MEMORY OF THE/ MEN OF/ WIVELISCOMBE/ WHO FELL IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918.
The drinking fountain, an octagonal font-like structure of the same stone, stands c20m to the east.
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, 25 July 2017.
Detailed Attributes
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