Record Details

NHER Number:5567
Type of record:Structure
Name:19th century war memorial and World War Two pillbox

Summary

In the late 1850s a war memorial was built to commemorate the end of the Crimean War. This survives, despite having been hit by a car in 1983, and is one of only a few monuments to the Crimean War in Britain. In 1940 a World War Two pillbox was built beside the memorial but it was demolished after the war, potentially by 1946.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 0496 9524
Map Sheet:TM09NW
Parish:ATTLEBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

September 1975. Obelisk.
Commemmorates peace of 1856 (Crimean War). Bears names of battles, and lists of local towns with their distances. Iron brackets remain at top. Restored stone finial. Signed 'E. Robins, mason, Windham'.
E. Rose (NAU) 26 September 1975.

December 1983.
Hit by car which revealed it was not a solid structure but slabs placed round a hollow core. Dismantled and restored.
E. Rose (NAU) 2 December 1983.

Press cutting (S1) in file.

August 1996.
Common 1940 type 22 pillbox, now demolished. Stood below Crimean War Monument on crossroads.
Survey no. R1-6. Information from [1].
See record form (S3) in file.
D. Walker (NLA), August 1996.

September 2005.
The memorial is one of only a few monuments to the Crimean War in Britain.
See (S4).
D. Robertson (NLA) 29 September 2005.

Carol W. Haines' Norfolk Milestones survey part IV (S5) records the distances written on each side of the memorial.
D. Holburn (HES), 16 January 2012.

November 2012. Norfolk NMP.
Assessment of the earliest available aerial photographs for this site (1946- S6) did not reveal any convincing traces of a pillbox next to the monument, suggesting that it had been removed by this date.
S. Horlock (NMP), 02 November 2012.

Monument Types

  • COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • OBELISK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • WAR MEMORIAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • PILLBOX (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • Listed Building

Sources and further reading

---Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 188.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Photograph: BZS 34.
<S1>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1983. Town war tribute danger. 2 December.
<S2>Article in Serial: Haines, C. 1991. Norfolk Milestones Part 4.. NIAS Journal. Vol 5, No 1, p 39.
<S3>Recording Form: [various]. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey Recording Form. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey.
<S4>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1999. Crimean war puzzle brings radio team to Norfolk. 17 December.
<S5>Article in Serial: Haines, C. 1991. Norfolk Milestones, Part IV. Journal of Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society. Vol. 5, No. 1, pp.34-42. pp 38-39.
<S6>Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 3G/TUD/UK/101 6141-2 30-MAR-1946 (NMR).

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