Listed Building: SOUTH AFRICAN WAR MEMORIAL (463349)

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Grade II*
LBSUID 463349
Date assigned 01 July 1968
Date last amended

Description

YORK SE6052SW DUNCOMBE PLACE 1112-1/27/305 (South East side) 01/07/68 South African War Memorial GV II* War memorial. Dated 1905. By GF Bodley. Contrasting stone with slate commemorative panels. 2-stage octagonal column raised on high stepped plinth and crowned with crocketed lantern. Plinth is buttressed at each corner by monolithic block, one incorporating dedication panel. Both stages of column are supported by 1-stage buttresses with crocketed pinnacles, upper ones tied back to lantern as flying buttresses. Lower stage incorporates engraved panels framed in moulded mullions and transoms: upper stage has standing military statuary beneath crocketed ogee-arched canopies. Carved cornice with gargoyles beneath lantern of paired trefoil-headed lights. Octagonal finial. (Bartholomew City Guides: Hutchinson J and Palliser DM: York: Edinburgh: 1980-: 162; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: York and the East Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 143). Listing NGR: SE6021552119

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Grid reference SE 60215 52119 (point)
Map sheet SE65SW

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Record last edited

Jan 11 2007 3:00PM

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