WAR MEMORIAL TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY

WAR MEMORIAL TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARY'S ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394263
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARY'S ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394263
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARY'S ROW

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARY'S ROW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 07833 83130

Reasons for Designation

The war memorial to the south-east of the Church of St Mary, St Mary's Row, Birmingham is designated for the following principal reasons:

* Design: Its iconography, showing the crucified Jesus, flanked by the two Marys, is unusual for an Anglican war memorial and is well executed. * Architectural: the memorial is a strong composition, well suited to its prominent site in the raised churchyard above St Mary's Row. * Intactness: the memorial appears to have suffered no loss or alteration. * Historic interest: a permanent testament to the sacrifice of The Fallen in the First World War. * Group value: with the Church of St Mary (Grade II).

Details

997/0/10538 ST MARY'S ROW 14-OCT-10 War Memorial to the south-east of the Church of St Mary

II A War Memorial, commemorating the dead of the First World War, erected in the 1920s. The monument is of Portland stone with rectangular slate tablets which bear the names of the dead. A rectangular platform supports a square plinth, which has canted steps to its lower body and, above these, four inset slate tablets. To the south-east side is an inscription which reads 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD / IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS DISTRICT / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 + 1919'. Other panels show the names of the fallen grouped according to the year of their death. Above these, the chamfered base has panels of blind tracery, and at either side are moulded brackets which support carved mourning figures of Mary, Mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene to either side of the cross. The cross bears the slumped body of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, and there is a gablet to the top.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION The war memorial to the south-east of the Church of St Mary, St Mary's Row, Birmingham is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Design: its iconography, showing the crucified Jesus, flanked by the two Marys, is unusual for an Anglican war memorial and is well executed. * Architectural: the memorial is a strong composition, well suited to its prominent site in the raised churchyard above St Mary's Row. * Intactness: the memorial appears to have suffered no loss or alteration. * Historic interest: a permanent testament to the sacrifice of The Fallen in the First World War. * Group value: with the Church of St Mary (Grade II).

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 18 January 2017.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 508527
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 18 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/165958
War Memorials Register, accessed 18 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/51988

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.