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A square columnar War Memorial with with a statue of Victory. It has classical Greek detail and is set on ground falling steeply to the east. Wide steps are flanked by two-stage square-section piers lead to a rectangular-plan paved platform with decorative ironwork railings to three sides and the three-stage square-section memorial at the centre. Each face of the reduced second stage hosts a corniced and fielded bronze memorial tablet below a decorative frieze, and stylised fluted square-section urns set into the outer angles, with a plain band above giving way to cresting of alternate large and small bronze acroteria. The further reduced third stage with decorative frieze and cornice is set below the monumental bronze winged Victory, facing west.
Title
War Memorial
Date
1922
Medium
bronze & granite
Accession number
KY15_AH_S035
Acquisition method
purchased by public subscription
Work type
War memorial
Owner
Royal Burgh of Cupar & District Community Council
Custodian
Royal Burgh of Cupar & District Community Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
B (Scotland)
Unveiling date
29th April 1922
Listing date
13/09/99
Access
at all times
Inscription description
First World War names on four tablets around the memorial, under these: IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF CUPAR / TOWN AND PARISH / WHO FELL IN 1914-18; plaque fastened to railings: THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED / BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION. / AND WAS UNVEILED ON / THE 29th APRIL 1922. / BY FIELD MARSHAL EARL HAIG. / JAMES STARK. PROVOST; tablet set into paving in front of memorial: QUEEN MARY / PLACED A WREATH / HERE ON AUGUST / 30th 1923; Second World War names on two tablets on pillars each side of the main memorial, below the tablets: 1939- / -1945