War Memorial at St Margaret's Church
WAR MEMORIAL AT ST MARGARET'S CHURCH, ST MARGARET'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392249
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-2007
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial at St Margaret's Church
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL AT ST MARGARET'S CHURCH, ST MARGARET'S ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392249
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-2007
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial at St Margaret's Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL AT ST MARGARET'S CHURCH, ST MARGARET'S ROAD
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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:
- WAR MEMORIAL AT ST MARGARET'S CHURCH, ST MARGARET'S ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 50557 07794
Details
612/0/10188 ST MARGARET'S ROAD
19-SEP-07 War Memorial at St Margaret's Church
GV II
War memorial dedicated in 1920; designer unknown.
The memorial stands on the edge of the churchyard of St Margaret's church (listed Grade II) on the corner of St Margaret's Road, effectively open to the street and very much deliberately visible therefrom. It comprises a Calvary (with beneath the Christ figure on the stone plinth a bronze plaque with the raised inscription JESU MERCY) under a half-dome, with a low semi-circular limestone wall to the rear on which are copper plates bearing the texts (1) THEY LOVED NOT/THEIR LIVES UNTO DEATH (Revelations 12.11) (2) FOR KING & COUNTRY 1914-1918 followed by the names, in alphabetical order and without further details, of 47 men. When visited (June 2007) there was some strapping on one of the principal uprights which was rotten.
HISTORY: The memorial was dedicated on 24 July 1920. The cast-iron figure of Christ was cast by Lucy's Engineering Works nearby in Jericho, one of 200 such castings all presumably intended for similar memorials.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION:
* Honouring the war dead of the parish, the memorial has strong historic and cultural significance.
* Standing on the edge of the churchyard on the street corner it is an ever-present reminder of the servicemen's sacrifice
* It incorporates a Christ figure cast by Lucy's Engineering Works in nearby Jericho
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, 11 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 503626
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 11 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/32094
War Memorials Online, accessed 11 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/92236
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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