Two Grade II-listed First World War memorials in Barnsbury will be restored thanks to cash from the Town Hall and The War Memorials Trust.

The £6,700 in new funding will go towards cleaning, re-carving of lettering and general maintenance of the memorials in Thornhill Road Gardens and at St Silas Church, in Risinghill Street.

Labour councillors for the ward have used their allocation of the council Local Initiative Fund to contribute around £1,700, with the trust finding the remaining £5,000.

The memorial in Thornhill Road Gardens is a Celtic granite wheel cross on a two-step granite plinth. The one at St Silas Church is made from limestone and timber.

The memorials commemorate war dead from Holy Trinity Church and St Silas Church. Almost 10,000 Islington residents lost their lives in the war.

Barnsbury ward councillor Mouna Hamitouche said: “These memorials mark the sacrifice that local people made in service of their country, and it is right that we ensure their memory can continue to be honoured by generations to come by repairing the memorials.”

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  WAR MEMORIALS, LISTED BUILDINGS, WORLD WAR ONE
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