Coventry Chain Company Memorial

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Reference WMO/195867

Address:

Koco Community Resource Centre

Unit 15, Koco Building

The Arches Industrial Estate

Spon End

Coventry

CV1 3JQ

England

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Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Drinking fountain
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
  • Metal Iron
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: The monument is dedicated to the 45 employees of the Coventry Chain Company who died in the war. Coventry Chain built a drinking fountain and horse trough on Hearsall Common as a memorial. It was handed over to the city by AS Hill, Managing Director of the Company, in July 1920. The memorial was put into storage for many years at a Council depot but was restored and rededicated in 1999. The plaque, which was missing, was found in a market in Lancashire. The horse trough and the wrought iron sides of the drinking fountain are missing.
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Erected by the employees of the Coventry Chain Co in memory of their 45 comrades who fell in the Great War 1914 - 1918

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