Memorial

Crossley And Porter Grammar School - WW1 and WW2

Memorial

Source: Copyright Eamonn Croft

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Current Location

Crossley Heath School, Skircoat Moor Road, Savile Park, Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, HX3 05G, England

SE 08186 23878

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Type of Memorial: Obelisk
WMR Reference Number: 29389
Description: Stone obelisk mounted on to a short plinth. This is now sited within a small flowerbed. The inscription is incised in to the plinth.
Inscription: TO THE OLD SCHOLARS/ OF THIS SCHOOL/ WHO FELL IN THE WARS/ 1914 - 1918/ 1939 - 1945

Sponsor Type: private
Sponsored By: School Memorial Fund
Additional Cost/Sponsorship Information: The fund purchased a sports field, proposed to build a sports pavilion and erected an oak board in the school entrance hall (Memorial 29390), all in addition to this obelisk. There is also an associated WW2 board (Memorial 29387) in the school entrance hall.
Maintenance History: 2020: The school has added a small flower bed but the memorial is protected and also 2 bollards to protect it from cars reversing near the carpark.

Obelisk

Made from: Stone - York

Condition: Good

Calderdale War Dead, Hornshaw and Fowler, published privately in 1995, their memorial 203