Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Hospital / Clinic
- District
- Harborough
- Town
- Market Harborough
- County
- Leicestershire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 50601
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Current location
Memorial incorporated in to new building
Rosewood Manor Care Home
Coventry Road
Market Harborough
Harborough
Leicestershire
LE16 9DD
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 72980 87132
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Plaques on either side of door marked X-Rays Department
Portico War Memorial (formerly Market Harborough & District Hospital)
Coventry Road
Market Harborough
Harborough
Leicestershire
LE16 9DD
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 72980 87132
Denomination: Undefined
- Plaques on either side of door marked X-Rays Department
- Description
- Hospital extension. Bronze plaque on outside of portico. Marble plaque above door inside portico with black carved lettering. Four marble tablets, two each side of the door, list names in black carved letters. Red cross next to names of those who died.
- Inscription
- Bronze plaque: This extension was erected by public subscritpion in/ Commemoration of the services of the men of/ The urban district of Market Harborough in the/ Great War 1914-19 Marble tablet above door: 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 THE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES ARE INDICATED BY A CROSS. Four tablets, two each side of door: (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Alton, I C
Asmton, A
Asmton, J
Asmton, J W
Asmton, M
Asmton, N
Athes, W
Atmime, C
Atmime, M
Atmime, M F
See details for all 307 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1657
Served and returned: 1407
Died: 250
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname,forename
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Hospital
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brick - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- Hospital
- Listing information
- WAR MEMORIAL PORTICO AT THE COTTAGE HOSPITAL
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Market Harborough Hospital
- WMO ID: 74726
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 11-02-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2013: Planned development of the hospital. Leicester City, County and Rutland 'At Risk' War Memorials Project in discussion with NHS over potential relocation of war memorials. 2009: The memorial tablets listed at Grade II
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Melton, Rutland and Marlborough PCT
- Reference
- Royal British Legion Journal, April 2018, p7. "A Unique War Memorial"
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