[74779] Sledmere : Waggoners Memorial
The Wolds Waggoners War Memorial, Main Street, Sledmere, East Yorkshire, c1919.
Carved by Carlo Magnoni (c1871-1961) to the design of Sir Mark Sykes.
Grade l listed.
This special memorial is to Sir Mark Sykes' own company of Waggoners, a corps of a thousand farm workers who provided horse drawn supply transport to soldiers in the trenches during the WWI.
The Waggoners' Memorial stands 6m high and is raised on an octagonal plinth of five steps, with a chamfered base and top step, and is surrounded by octagonal stone paving. It consists of a squat central carved drum beneath a conical canopy with carved fish scale slates and surmounted by a pinnacle that was once fitted with a cross. An entablature is supported by four elaborately carved columns, each decorated with a different geometric pattern, with capitals that have intertwined foliate and floral designs with farm animal heads at the corners. The entablature has a square patterned cornice with octagonal finials crowned by a coronet rising above each of the columns and an inscription on the frieze that reads:
LT COL SIR MARK SYKES. BART MP DESIGNED THIS MONUMENT AND SET IT UP AS A REMEMBRANCE OF THE GALLANT SERVICES RENDERED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 BY THE WAGGONERS RESERVE, A CORPS OF 1000 DRIVERS RAISED BY HIM ON THE YORKSHIRE WOLD FARMS IN THE YEAR 1912. THOMAS SCOTT FOREMAN. CARLO MAGNONI SCULPTOR. ALFRED BARR MASON.
[74779] Sledmere : Waggoners Memorial
The Wolds Waggoners War Memorial, Main Street, Sledmere, East Yorkshire, c1919.
Carved by Carlo Magnoni (c1871-1961) to the design of Sir Mark Sykes.
Grade l listed.
This special memorial is to Sir Mark Sykes' own company of Waggoners, a corps of a thousand farm workers who provided horse drawn supply transport to soldiers in the trenches during the WWI.
The Waggoners' Memorial stands 6m high and is raised on an octagonal plinth of five steps, with a chamfered base and top step, and is surrounded by octagonal stone paving. It consists of a squat central carved drum beneath a conical canopy with carved fish scale slates and surmounted by a pinnacle that was once fitted with a cross. An entablature is supported by four elaborately carved columns, each decorated with a different geometric pattern, with capitals that have intertwined foliate and floral designs with farm animal heads at the corners. The entablature has a square patterned cornice with octagonal finials crowned by a coronet rising above each of the columns and an inscription on the frieze that reads:
LT COL SIR MARK SYKES. BART MP DESIGNED THIS MONUMENT AND SET IT UP AS A REMEMBRANCE OF THE GALLANT SERVICES RENDERED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 BY THE WAGGONERS RESERVE, A CORPS OF 1000 DRIVERS RAISED BY HIM ON THE YORKSHIRE WOLD FARMS IN THE YEAR 1912. THOMAS SCOTT FOREMAN. CARLO MAGNONI SCULPTOR. ALFRED BARR MASON.