Sheriffhales War Memorial, St Mary's churchyard
Sheriffhales War Memorial, St Mary's churchyard
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391482
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Sheriffhales War Memorial, St Mary's churchyard
- Statutory Address:
- Sheriffhales War Memorial, St Mary's churchyard
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391482
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Sheriffhales War Memorial, St Mary's churchyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- Sheriffhales War Memorial, St Mary's churchyard
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Sheriffhales War Memorial, St Mary's churchyard
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sheriffhales
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 75817 11934
Details
380/1/10012
SHERIFFHALES
Sheriffhales War Memorial, St Mary's churchyard
31-JAN-06
II
War memorial. Sandstone cross and base. c.1920. Executed by Mr R Wardle, a local Newport stonemason. Tall tapering octagonal shaft with cushioned cap surmounted by cross with octagonal limbs with pinched ridge equidistant from the centre of the cross. The cross shaft sits on a three stepped base, the lower two steps being octagonal, and the upper step square which is inscribed thus 'To the Glory of God and in grateful memory of the men of Sheriffhales and Woodcote who died in the Great War 1914-1918' in capital letters. The middle step carries the names of those who fell. The shaft is squared at its foot and carries an inscription to Captain Foster Abney Giles, lost during WWII.
Due to erosion of the inscriptions, a metal plaque has been affixed, c. late C20, to one face of the middle step reiterating the dedication and list of names.
HISTORY: The unveiling and dedication ceremony was held on 6th December 1920 by the Bishop of Lichfield, the Rev. A T Mitchell (Vicar of Sheriffhales) and the Rev. T E Stevenson (Rector of Church Aston).
SOURCES: Newport and Market Drayton Advertiser, 10th December 1920.
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, 19 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 493604
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newport and Market Drayton Advertiser in Newport and Market Drayton Advertiser, (1920), 10-DEC
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/38024
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/170766
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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