Listed Building: WAR MEMORIAL (1085201)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1350, 7, 145
Date assigned 05 July 1993
Date last amended

Description

BENENDEN TQ8133 THE STREET 1350-0/7/145 (North East side) War Memorial GV II War Memorial. c.1920, Sculptor Albert Toft, cast at Albion Art Foundry, Parsons Green. Bronze seated statue of female in flowing robes, leaning on a shield and holding laurel wreath in her left hand on rectangular stepped stone plinth about 7 feet 6 inches long. Inscription on bronze plaque at the top of the plinth reads "To the memory of the men of Benenden who fought and died for justice and liberty in the Great War 1914-18. Their name liveth for evermore". On a bronze plaque below are inscribed the names of local men who died in the 1st World War and below those who died in the Second World War. Listing NGR: TQ8101132862

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 8101 3286 (point)
Map sheet TQ83SW
Civil Parish BENENDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM