The War Memorial, Lancaster Cemetery, was built to commemorate those lost in the
Crimean War
The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia.
Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...
. It was erected in 1860, and designed by the local architect
E. G. Paley. Its estimated cost was £120–140, but Paley made no charge for it.
The monument is constructed in
carboniferous limestone
Carboniferous Limestone is a collective term for the succession of limestones occurring widely throughout Great Britain and Ireland that were deposited during the Dinantian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period. These rocks formed between 363 and ...
and consists of an
obelisk
An obelisk (; from grc, ὀβελίσκος ; diminutive of ''obelos'', " spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top. Originally constructed by Anc ...
on three steps. Its inscriptions include the names of the local men who died in the war.
The obelisk stands high.
The monument is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England
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as a designated Grade II
listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
.
See also
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Listed buildings in Lancaster, Lancashire
The listed buildings in Lancaster, Lancashire (the unparished area within the wider City of Lancaster district), are divided into:
*Listed buildings in Lancaster, Lancashire (central area)
*Listed buildings in Lancaster, Lancashire (outer areas) ...
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List of non-ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley
E. G. Paley was an English architect who practised from an office in Lancaster, Lancashire in the 19th century. In 1838 he joined Edmund Sharpe as a pupil and became Sharpe's partner in 1845. The practice was then known as "Sharpe and Pa ...
References
Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
Gothic Revival architecture in Lancashire
E. G. Paley buildings
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