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GROVE HILL
Harrow on the Hill War Memorial

(Formerly listed as Harrow on the Hill War Memorial, GROVE ROAD)

15-AUG-02

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War Memorial. 1921. William Douglas Caröe (1857-1938), architect.

Portland stone. Free Gothic, in form of a wayside calvary cross. Octagonal base with four steps, inscribed with the names of the dead. Plinth with set-back corners; fielded panels to each face, the central one with raised gilded lettering (in Free Roman capitals) reading HARROW ON THE HILL TOWN MEMORIAL. Above is an octagonal frieze with inscription in Lombardic script opening TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY; lower register embellished with ball-flower ornament. Tapering cross on base above, with coped cover to top, cusped supports to transverse arms below.

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 reading, 16 February 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657172

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)