Sponsor Type

public

Maintenance History

An application was made to the first round of the Grants for War Memorials scheme in 2007/8 for conservation work on the memorial. This application was unsuccessful as the Grants Panel had concerns about the structural stability of the monument. The custodians of the memorial therefore undertook a structural survey and in July 2007 received a grant of £165 towards this work through the Small Grants Scheme. This survey revealed that the memorial had suffered structural movement caused by settlement of the concrete foundation due to extraction of moisture from the clay by tree roots. The recommendation was to re-locate the memorial to somewhere unaffected by tree roots, or to make new foundations for the memorial that went deeper than the tree roots. In the second round of applications in 2007/8 English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation granted £3,800 towards work to dismantle the memorial and excavate and consolidate the ground and form a new concrete base below ground level, deep enough to prevent damage by tree root activity. The memorial would then be cleaned, repaired and re-erected, and the surrounding paving re-laid. The option to relocate the memorial was not chosen because the site is well wooded.

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