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Title
Winged Victory War Memorial
Date
1922
Medium
bronze & limestone
Accession number
HR6_MRF_S003
Acquisition method
purchased by public subscription
Work type
War memorial
Owner
Leominster Town Council
Custodian
Leominster Town Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
17th August 1922
Listing date
14/09/20
Access
at all times
Signature/marks description
at the right rear of the shallow bronze plinth: A.B.BURTON. / FOUNDER.; and at the left rear of the plinth: STORR-BARBER Sc.
Inscription description
all in black lettering, on the front of the pedestal in a shallow recess: TO / THE GLORY OF THE / GIVER OF VICTORY / AND PEACE AND IN / PROUD AND GRATEFUL / REMEMBRANCE OF THE / MEN OF LEOMINSTER / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR / LIVES IN THE CAUSE OF / HUMANITY IN THE / GREAT WAR. / 1914-1918.; and below THAT: "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN / THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN / HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS."; on the left side of the pedestal: "THESE WERE HIS SERVANTS, / IN HIS STEPS THEY TROD / FOLLOWING THROUGH DEATH / THE MARTYR'D Son OF GOD: / VICTOR HE ROSE: / VICTORIOUS TOO SHALL RISE / THEY WHO HAVE DRUNK / HIS CUP OF SACRIFICE." / 1939; and on the right side: "O VALIANT HEARTS, / WHO TO YOUR GLORY CAME / THROUGH DUST OF CONFLICT / AND THROUGH BATTLE-FLAME; / TRANQUIL YOU LIE, / YOUR KNIGHTLY VIRTUE PROVED, / YOUR MEMORY HALLOWED / IN THE LAND YOU LOVED." / 1945; on the rear side: ERECTED / BY THE CITIZENS OF / LEOMINSTER / IN MEMORY OF THEIR / GLORIOUS DEAD / A.D.1922 / "at THE GOING DOWN OF THE / SUN, AND IN THE MORNING, / WE WILL REMEMBER THEM."