Langley Park war memorial

Heritage listing

Details The memorial stands at the corner of Front Street and Quebec Street, in a square enclosure defined by railings carried on a low kerb. The granite structure comprises a large two-stage base, square on plan, on which stands a pedestal with scrolled angle buttresses. The pedestal supports the central section: that, square on plan, has corner columns that carry an entablature and pediment with corner pinnacles. From the pediment rises a domed octagonal drum, surmounted by a wheel-head cross. The principal dedicatory inscription is recorded on the front face of the pedestal, framed by the corner buttresses, reading: THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED/ BY THE INHABITANTS OF/ LANGLEY PARK/ TO THE EVERLASTING MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE/ WHO NOBLY SACRIFICED THEIR/ LIVES, FOR THE CAUSE OF/ RIGHT, LIBERTY, JUSTICE, AND/ FREEDOM, IN THE GREAT/ EUROPEAN WAR with below: HE LIVES IN FAME THAT DIES IN VIRTUE’S CAUSE. The commemorated names are recorded on the remaining faces of the pedestal and on the central section of the monument, with the dates 1914 1919 and 1939 1945 incised either side of wreaths. On the base, below the names of the soldiers who died in 1951 and 1973, the unidentified soldier buried in the local churchyard is commemorated with the inscription AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER OF THE 1939 – 1945 WAR/ BURIED 6 JUNE 1940 IN THE ALL SAINTS CHURCHYARD/ KNOWN UNTO GOD. This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 23 November 2017.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.