War Memorial Portico at the Cottage Hospital

Heritage listing

Details 911/0/10007 COVENTRY ROAD 25-MAR-09 WAR MEMORIAL PORTICO AT THE COTTAGE HO SPITAL II Also Known As: WAR MEMORIAL PORTICO AT MARKET HARBOROUGH & DISTRICT HOSPTIAL, COVENTRY ROAD First World War Memorial; stone with marble panels and bronze plaque; octagonal in plan. The Cottage Hospital and its memorial wing are not of special architectural or historical interest. EXTERIOR: The memorial forms the entrance to the memorial wing of a cottage hospital. It has a moulded cornice, with frieze and architrave supported by Tuscan columns at four corners of the three open sides of the octagon. There is a bronze plaque with a scrolled lower edge attached to the frieze between the two front columns inscribed with the following: 'This extension erected by public subscription/ in commemoration of the services of the men of the urban district of Market Harborough in the /Great War. 1914-1918'. INTERIOR: The remaining five sides of the memorial are recessed within the hospital building, with double doors at the back giving access to the memorial wing. Above the door is a marble tablet with the following inscription: 'The names inscribed on these panels are a record of the/ men from the urban district who served in the Great War./ The names of men who gave their lives are indicated by a cross'. The other four sides, two either side of the door, are filled with marble tablets framed in stone, inscribed with 953 names of those who served; those who died are indicated by a red cross by their name. HISTORY: A public meeting held in Market Harborough on 12th December 1918 proposed that the town should have two war memorials. The first was a column or cross in the town square to commemorate those who died in the Great War, but the second was to be a free library and reading room in the

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.