Memorial

Laxfield

Pillar/Column Memorial

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Current Location

Junction of High St and Framlingham Rd, High St, Laxfield, Mid Suffolk, Suffolk, England

TM 29221 72295

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Type of Memorial: Pillar / Column
WMR Reference Number: 4782
Description: Four-sided portland stone column. Each face represents a temple with pediment and base. Each pediment contains a relief of a wreath with ribbons. Urn and flame positioned centrally atop the memorial.
Inscription: 6 o'clock face: IN EVER LIVING MEMORY/ OF/ THE MEN/ OF THIS PARISH/ WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919./ FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE./ THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY,/ AND THEIR SOULS TO GOD. 3 o'clock face: THIS MONUMENT/WAS ERECTED/BY/PARISHIONERS OF LAXFIELD/AND FRIENDS/ 9 o'clock face: 1914/ (Name)/ 1918/ (Name)/ 1914/ (Names)/ 1916/ (Names)/ 1917/ (Names) 12 o'clock face: 1917/ (Names)/ 1918/ (Names)/ 1919/ (Name)/ IN EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE/ OF/ THE FALLEN IN WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945/ (Names)

Maker(s): Messrs Collins, Wright & Curtis, Builder
Messrs Cubitt and Cotts, Ipswich, Sculptor
Sponsor Type: public
Maintenance History: June 2001: Applied for English Heritage grant. In 2002-2003 English Heritage offered a grant of £2,224 towards work to clean the memorial using water and natural fibre brushes, to investigate how the flame was attached to the memorial and to see how it could be made more stable as it was loose on the masonry bed, to rake out and re-point defective joints on the pediments, to make good the defective joints on the pilasters, to re-touch the painted inscriptions on the panels, to make good the joint voids on the base of the memorial and to remove the cement render on the base, to carry out mortar repairs and re-render it with lime render or limewash.