Alberbury War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details SJ 3514 SJ 35802 14329 ALBERBURY WITH ALBERBURY CARDESTON C.P. 12/20 War memorial approx. - 17 metres to south-east of English Lodge GV II War memorial. Dated 1919, by Mrs Alfred Sotheby (nee Leighton). Limestone ashlar. Pedestal design in a free classical style. Square base with 3 steps, moulded plinth, cyma-recta moulded cornice with egg and dart and bead and reel enrichment, top with carved festoons, and crowning octagonal aedicule with Ionic columns supporting entablature and ogee dome with cross finial, and with urn within. Moulded shouldered-arched recessed panels, commemorating the dead of the "1914-19" (sic) war to east and west, and the "1939-45" war to north; north side: moulded recessed panel with a boss relief in the style of Burne-Jones depicting a soldier and angel, flanking Ionic type pilasters with carved foliage decoration resting on plinth, carved foliage frieze, and blind round arch above with moulded architrave and carved scrolled keystone; tympanum inscribed: "FOR GOD/KING AND COUNTRY" and plinth inscribed: "THE PEOPLE OF ALBERBURY, BAUSLEY, CARDESTON/AND WATTLESBOROUGH ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL IN 1919/ IN HONOUR OF THE GLORIOUS DEAD HEREON INSCRIBED/AND IN ORDER THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS MIGHT PRAISE/THEIR GREAT GALLANTRY AND THE SACRIFICE OF THOSE WHO, SO WILLING, GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-19 AND IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945". Mrs Sotheby was the daughter of Sir Baldwin Leighton (d. 1897) and was much influenced in her youth by Burne-Jones, a friend of the family. B.O.E., p.54. Listing NGR: SJ3580314331 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

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.