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A bronze statue of a soldier in battle dress carrying a rifle on a stone pedestal, backed by semi-circular ashlar wall. The stone pedestal includes the principal inscriptions and bronze panels recording the names of the dead. The original bronze panels included a depiction of soldiers in the trenches, and this was apparently stolen and replaced with an inferior plain panel. Manchester sculptor, John Cassidy, was approached for a design and proposed a bronze memorial of a soldier and an angel on a stone pedestal. The estimated cost was £1,800- £2,000. Cassidy agreed not to use the same model for any other memorial within a 30-mile radius. The site chosen for the memorial was on Heaton Moor Road in front of St Paul's church, on land obtained from the church.
Title
War Memorial
Date
1920
Medium
bronze
Measurements
H 243 x W (?) x D (?) cm;
Plinth: H 304 x W 225.2 x D (?) cm
Accession number
SK4_FM_S064
Acquisition method
commissioned by the Memorial Committee; purchased by public subscription
Work type
Sculpture
Custodian
Stockport MBC
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
30 January 1921
Access
at all times
Inscription description
inscription: IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF / HEATON CHAPEL / AND / HEATON MOOR / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919; rear: THEIR / NAME / LIVETH / FOR / EVERMORE
Heaton Moor Road, Stockport
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