Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/10/2014

TL 4557
667-/17/10054

CAMBRIDGE
HILLS ROAD
War Memorial

II
World War I memorial. 1922. Bronze figure by R. Tait McKenzie. Stone-faced brick plinth. Rectangular. Base with inscriptions supporting sarcophagus with rounded ends to north and south. Sarcophagus carved with high-relief plaque to the east side, coats of arms to remaining 3 sides. Sarcophagus supports full-size bronze figure of British soldier in military dress striding forward, rifle slung, gazing to right.

The memorial was originally sited in the middle of Hills Road, but in 2012 was moved a short distance to the pavement in front of the Botanic Garden.

Listing NGR: TL4575057342

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, 13 January 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Cambridge War Memorial at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26558679

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)