MEMORIAL CROSS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1086559
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL CROSS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL CROSS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1086559
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL CROSS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: MEMORIAL CROSS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL CROSS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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

County:: Cumbria
District:: South Lakeland (District Authority)
Parish:: Heversham
National Grid Reference:: SD4959983372

Details

SD 48 SE 2/8 HEVERSHAM

Heversham

Memorial Cross to South of Church of St Peter (q.v.)

G.V. II

Memorial Cross. Erected 1920 in memory of those killed in 1st World War, inscription for 2nd World War added later. Designed by J.F. Curwen. Sandstone. In the form of a Celtic Cross, based on a reconstruction of the old cross in the church porch at the time of survey. Inscribed on South face with list of names and:

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVER MORE 1914-1919

followed by a further list of names for 1939-45 war. Inscription on North side reads: (in part)

TO THE MEMORY OF ALL THOSE WHO AT THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY LEFT ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM ... GIVING UP THEIR LIVES THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM.

Further information and photograph of original Memorial Curwen; John F. History of Heversham with MiInthorpe published by: Titus Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1930.

Listing NGR: SD4959983372

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, 3 February 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 76501
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Curwen, F , History of Heversham with Milnthorpe, (1930)
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 3 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/118527
War Memorials Register, accessed 3 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/4163

Legal

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