Of the 30,000 war memorials in the UK there are a large minority that are either a plaque in the village church, or a new lychgate, or a monument in front of the church. And a lot of our 60,000 grade I and II* listed buildings are of village churches. Also if you combine WW1 with WLM you'd need to decide what to do about an awful lot of entries that will look like this, a grade II* listed church with a war memorial in front of it.

Jonathan

regaess

On 16 August 2013 13:02, Michael Maggs <Michael@maggs.name> wrote:

Please can we not use the word 'monuments' at all in in relation to the special prize? In the UK, the expression 'war memorial' means something specific, and there will be virtually no UK entries of war memorials in that sense, since very few of them are listed buildings (which is what we are covering). In the UK, entries for the special award are likely to be buildings that had some special relevance to the war.

What about 'The WW1 special award', with entries simply having to be of a structure having some special relevance to the Great War?

Michael

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On 16 Aug 2013, at 05:23, Lodewijk wrote:

Hi Àlex,

Op 23-7-2013 10:53, Àlex Hinojo schreef:
2) Beside of sponsoring main prize, We’ll have a special category within the contest entitled ‘World War I Monuments and Memorials'.

We already have a hard time explaining native English speakers that the "Monuments" part in WLM is about old buildings and not about Monuments and Memorials, this will create a lot of confusion.

What about "War and monuments" as a special theme? That can be reconstructed buildings, cementries, etc

Maarten

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