Scout War Memorial Gateway

Heritage listing

Details 646-1/0/10052 HUCKNALL ROAD 07-MAY-08 Scout War Memorial Gateway II War memorial erected in 1927 MATERIALS: Timber, brick and handmade tiles DESCRIPTION: The gateway is made up of a central, gabled entranceway with flanking walls. The central entranceway is timber framed on brick plinths and with red brick nogging laid in a herringbone pattern between the studding. It has a steeply pitched roof, covered with handmade tiles, with timber fascia boards on both elevations. It has a pair of half panelled timber gates with spindles to upper openings. The stepped, flanking walls are of red brick and have panels of herringbone brickwork and tiled copings. Above the gates attached to the timber lintel, is a plaque which reads 'SCOUTS OF THIS PLACE LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID. THAT YOU WHO LIVE ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD. THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP. A RICHER HARVEST ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP'. Above, in the gable, is a square plaque which reads '24 NOTTM CAVENDISH SCOUT GROUP'. The gateway marks the entrance to a Scout site comprisng a walled wood with a Scout hut linked to the gateway by a World War II memorial avenue of trees. A plaque in the hut reads 'THE AVENUE OF TREES PLANTED IN THANKSGIVING FOR VICTORY AND PEACE AND IN MEMORY OF SCOUTS WHO DIED IN THE WAR OF 1939-1945 WAS DEDICATED BY THE LORD BISHOP OF SOUTHWELL AND THIS TABLET UNVEILED IN THEIR HONOUR BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER LT. COL. N.G. PEARSON D.S.O ON SUNDAY MAY 12TH 1946'. HISTORY: The gateway was built in memory of those Scouts who died in the First World War. The designer is not known but it is thought that it was a member of the Scout Association. It was constructed by the Nottingham City District Rover Scouts in 1927, and is said to incorporate timbers from Trent Bridge which was widened th

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.