Image: Garden of Remembrance - Lichfield - war memorial (6681152815)

Description: Gardens in Lichfield near the Minster Pool. Next to the Minster Pool is the Garden of Remembrance off Bird Street. Grade II listed. War Memorial and Garden Walls, Balustrades and Gate, Lichfield LICHFIELD SK1109NW BIRD STREET 1094-1/4/45 (North East side) 05/02/52 War Memorial and garden walls, balustrades and gate (Formerly Listed as: BIRD STREET (North East side) The Bridge over the Minster Pool) GV II War memorial, garden walls, balustrades and gate. C18, C19, and war memorial planned 1920. By Bridgeman and Son. Ashlar. Classical style. Plinth and Ionic pilasters to entablature and cornice, side panels with swept parapets. 2 tiers of slate name panels; niche with statue of St George and the Dragon, with flanking lion masks holding name panels; side panels with wreaths; shell to pediment. C18 brick walls to rear and left return. Front has C19 balustrade from Moxhull Hall, Wishaw, Warks, 2 urns; left forward return wall and right forward return balustrading. Gate has large brick piers with ashlar caps supporting heraldic lions with Lichfield arms, enriched wrought iron gates and overthrow. Revetting to pool has some balustrading, but much has been removed. Front balustrade formerly included with the bridge over Minster Pool (qv). (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.164). Listing NGR: SK1146509612 The war memorial at the end. Poppy wreaths at the bottom Statue in the middle of George and the Dragon.
Title: Garden of Remembrance - Lichfield - war memorial (6681152815)
Credit: Garden of Remembrance - Lichfield - war memorial
Author: Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
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