Description

SOUTH BANK KING GEORGE'S SQUARE,
NZ 52 SW
3/101 War Memorial
- II

War memorial, c.1920. Dressed granite with bronze tablets, shield and
figure. Tapered flat-topped obelisk with fluted band at top and key-moulded
band at base. Deep chamfered plinth and one square and 2 octagonal steps.
Figure of Victory, with trumpet in right hand and wreath in left hand, on
obelisk. Carved wreath at head of east face of obelisk, above applied metal
lettering: "TO THE GLORIOUS DEAD", and shield depicting blast furnaces and
shipyard in relief. Tablet with applied lettering on east face of plinth.
Names of those who fell in Great War, 1914-1919, recorded on raised-lettered
tablets, on north, south and west faces of plinth.

Listing NGR: NZ5343320780

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, 7 February 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614896

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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