Listed Building record TQ 53 NW 85 - WAR MEMORIAL
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Location
Grid reference | TQ 5421 3915 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ53NW |
District | TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
Civil Parish | SPELDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST THE GREEN (south side),LANGTON GREEN 7/494 War Memorial
GV II
War Memorial. Circa 1919 with an extra plaque added 1946. Sandstone ashlar. Tall Gothic-style cross in memory of those killed in the First World War. Tall and slightly tapering octagonal shaft with moulded cap with cross sitting on top. Its own shaft has small gabled buttresses and cross itself a kind of fleuree design. Main shaft in a chamfered socket stone on a tall pedestal with moulded top. Its corners are chamfered. Wider chamfers at top enriched with shields carved with Sacred Emblems and it tapers below through a stop to a narrower chamfer. The plaque on the south side praises the dead of the First World War and plaques on the other sides record their names. Pedestal on an octagonal 4-step plinth on a paved base. A brass plaque on the top step has been set in to commemorate the local dead of the Second World War.
Listing NGR: TQ5435539273
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
Feb 19 2008 12:26PM