War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, CULVERHAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392023
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-2007
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, CULVERHAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392023
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-2007
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, CULVERHAY
- Statutory Address 2:
- WAR MEMORIAL, OLD TOWN
- Statutory Address 3:
- WAR MEMORIAL, SCHOOL ROAD
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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.
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:
- WAR MEMORIAL, CULVERHAY
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, OLD TOWN
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, SCHOOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wotton-under-Edge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7588093378
Details
WOTTON UNDER EDGE
238/0/10005 OLD TOWN
07-JUN-2007 WAR MEMORIAL
CULVERHAY
WAR MEMORIAL
SCHOOL ROAD
WAR MEMORIAL
GV II
A war memorial, dating from 1920, designed by Percy Burnell Tubbs, FRIBA (d.1933) and sculpted by Henry Poole, RA (1873-1928).
MATERIALS: The monument is constructed from dressed Portland stone, with inscribed granite plaques, and a separate bronze plaque added to commemorate those who fell in World War Two.
EXTERIOR: The monument comprises an urn atop a tapering, ashlar column of square section. To its top is a Doric frieze, and the monument sits on a square plinth, set on a platform of three steps. To each side of the plinth is a rectangular granite plaque set in a limestone surround, which has a pedimented top; this has winged decoration to either side and a stylised anthemion to the apex. The eastern plaque is inscribed : 'TO THE HONOURED MEMORY / OF THE BRAVE MEN OF / WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919 / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN / THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY / DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS'. The remaining three plaques give the names and ranks of the 114 men of the town who lost their lives in the Great War. An additional bronze plaque is situated on the eastern side, affixed to the lower part of the plinth, which is cast in relief '1939-1945', with the names and regiments of the fifteen men who fell in World War Two, set over a shield with laurel leaves.
HISTORY: The monument was erected after the end of the First World War, to a design by Percy Burnell Tubbs, RIBA, whose son, Captain S B Tubbs, is one of the men who lost their lives in the First World War commemorated by the memorial. It was carved by Henry Poole, RA (1873-1928), and was unveiled in a civic ceremony on 20 June 1920. A bronze plaque commemorating the men of the town who died in the Second World War was added after 1945.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION:
The war memorial in Wotton-under-Edge is designated in Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* An eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this community
* A striking classical memorial designed by a recognised architect, Percy B Tubbs, FRIBA, and sculpted by Henry Poole, RA
* The memorial is particularly poignant as one of the men commemorated was the son of the architect
* Group value with the listed buildings surrounding the crossroads at which the memorial is situated
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, 10 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 503184
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 10 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20744
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/103315
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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