Description

ST5515NE YEOVIL CP HIGH STREET (North side)

8/45
The Yeovil First World War
Memorial

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- II

Commemorative Monument. Circa 1920. Ham stone; in the form of a C14 cross,
hexagonal on plan. Standing on a 4-stepped hexagonal base, with low granite
bollards to each corner; between angle buttresses, pointed arched cusped panels
to each face with inlaid bronze plaques bearing general inscription and the
names of the War dead: the first stage crowned with a band of Quatrefoil
decoration surmounted by crenellation. The second stage has more cusped arched
panels under gablets between crocketted pinnacles, with additional freestanding
pinnacles to each corner; the third stage smaller but similar, except that the
corner pinnacles are attached, then codes a band course, and the termination, a
crocketted spirelet under an open stonework cross. Approx 6 metres high overall.
Apart from its general significance, the memorial is a very important element of
the street scene of The Borough.

Listing NGR: ST5566915983

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, 20 July 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26467984

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)