Hockley Heath War Memorial

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Reference WMO/187619

Address:

A3400

Junction with Old Warwick Road

Hockley Heath

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Composite
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Portland stone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A round column, entwined with a leafy stem and with an ornamental top of cherubs, scrolls and leaves, set on an octagonal plinth with inscriptions. The memorial stands on a 4 step octagonal base. The memorial was restored by the village in 1989. Historic England listing entry - A war memorial of 1921, designed by Bateman and Bateman of Birmingham and carved by John White. Of Portland stone, with bronze gnomons to the sundials. It has a triangular, stepped plinth and base, both of which have chamfered corners. This is connected by small volutes at the corner to a column, of no specific order, with a base and capital with Renaissance motifs, including further volutes to the three corners and cherubs heads. The triangular block above this has sundials to each face and chamfered corners. Above its dentilled cornice the body tapers and culminates in a finial in the form of a seated lion. A sculpted garland of bay leaves is twined around the body of the column, which has entasis. The three sundial faces are each different and each has a differently shaped bronze gnomon. Two sides of the base bear the names of the fallen. The third is inscribed TO THE GLORIOUS DEAD/IN HONOURED MEMORY/OF THE MEN /OF THIS DISTRICT/WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/FOR THEIR KING/AND COUNTRY/IN THE GREAT WAR/1914-1918/AND IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945. Carved above the three sundial faces are THE DAYS WERE SHORT and THE WORK GREAT and THEIR TIME PASSED AWAY LIKE A SHADOW.
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Two sides of the base bear the names of the fallen. The third is inscribed TO THE GLORIOUS DEAD/IN HONOURED MEMORY/OF THE MEN /OF THIS DISTRICT/WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/FOR THEIR KING/AND COUNTRY/IN THE GREAT WAR/1914-1918/AND IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945. Carved above the three sundial faces are THE DAYS WERE SHORT and THE WORK GREAT and THEIR TIME PASSED AWAY LIKE A SHADOW.

Grade II (England)

1392234

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