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{{Short description|Grade II* listed memorial in York, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2022}}
[[File:War memorial in York (8400).jpg|thumb|right|The memorial, in 2016]]
[[File:Boer War memorial, York (26682158800).jpg|thumb|right|Two of the statues]]
The '''Second Boer War Memorial''' lies in the city centre of [[York]], in England.
The [[war memorial]] lies on [[Duncombe Place]], near [[York Minster]].  It commemorates the soldiers from [[Yorkshire]] who died in the [[Second Boer War]], between 1899 and 1902.  In total, there are 1,459 names on the memorial.  It was designed by [[G. F. Bodley]] and constructed by Robert Bridgeman & Sons.<ref name="register">{{cite web |title=Yorkshire - Boer War |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/30913 |website=War Memorials Register |publisher=Imperial War Museum |access-date=2 March 2022}}</ref><ref name="sculpture">{{cite book |last1=Noszlopy |first1=George Thomas |last2=Waterhouse |first2=Fiona |title=Public sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country |date=2005 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |location=Liverpool |isbn=9780853239895 |page=79}}</ref>
The memorial is in the [[Perpendicular Gothic]] style and is built of [[Ketton stone]].  It stands on an octagonal stepped base, and its upright is also octagonal, with [[buttress]]es and topped with [[finial]]s.  Its top is in a lantern form, and atop that is a cross and small shield.  The front has eight niches, holding a statue representing different forces: a sailor, cavalryman, artilleryman, infantryman, imperial yeoman, militiaman, volunteer and nurse.<ref name="register" /><ref name="historic">{{NHLE |desc=South African War Memorial |num=1257874 |access-date=2 March 2022}}</ref>  The initial statue of a sailor showed him holding a [[Lee-Enfield Magazine Rifle Mark I]], which was rejected as overly aggressive, and instead installed at the library in [[Lichfield]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tomlinson |first1=Barbara |title=Commemorating the Seafarer |date=2015 |publisher=Boydell Press |isbn=9781843839705 |page=93}}</ref><ref name="sculpture" />
The memorial was unveiled on 3 August 1905, in the presence of [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts]].<ref name="register" />  In 1961, the memorial was struck by lightning.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chrystal |first1=Paul |title=York in the 1960s |date=2015 |publisher=Amberley Publishing |isbn=9781445640969}}</ref>  In 1968, it was [[grade II* listed]].<ref name="historic" />
==See also==
*[[Grade II* listed war memorials in England]]
==References==
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[[Category:1905 sculptures]]
[[Category:George Frederick Bodley buildings]]
[[Category:Gothic Revival architecture in North Yorkshire]]
[[Category:Grade II* listed buildings in York]]
[[Category:Monuments and memorials in North Yorkshire]]
[[Category:Outdoor sculptures in York]]
[[Category:Second Boer War memorials]]
[[Category:Stone sculptures in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Duncombe Place]]