SCOUT WAR MEMORIAL GATEWAY

SCOUT WAR MEMORIAL GATEWAY, HUCKNALL ROAD

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War memorial erected in 1927. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392587
Date first listed:: 07-May-2008
List Entry Name:: SCOUT WAR MEMORIAL GATEWAY
Statutory Address:: SCOUT WAR MEMORIAL GATEWAY, HUCKNALL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392587
Date first listed:: 07-May-2008
List Entry Name:: SCOUT WAR MEMORIAL GATEWAY
Statutory Address 1:: SCOUT WAR MEMORIAL GATEWAY, HUCKNALL ROAD

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:: SCOUT WAR MEMORIAL GATEWAY, HUCKNALL ROAD

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

District:: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 56550 43407

Reasons for Designation

The First World War Memorial gateway is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * It is a poignant reminder of the impact of tragic world events on both the local community and the Scout movement; * It is testimony to the historic interest of Scouting as a C20 popular movement; * It is has some good design features, for example the steeply sloping roof and the use of brick nogging; * It has group value as part of a very unusual Scout site, comprising a walled wood with a Scout hut linked to the gateway by a Second World War memorial avenue of trees.

Details

646-1/0/10052 HUCKNALL ROAD 07-MAY-08 Scout War Memorial Gateway

II War memorial erected in 1927

MATERIALS: Timber, brick and handmade tiles

DESCRIPTION: The gateway is made up of a central, gabled entranceway with flanking walls. The central entranceway is timber framed on brick plinths and with red brick nogging laid in a herringbone pattern between the studding. It has a steeply pitched roof, covered with handmade tiles, with timber fascia boards on both elevations. It has a pair of half panelled timber gates with spindles to upper openings. The stepped, flanking walls are of red brick and have panels of herringbone brickwork and tiled copings. Above the gates attached to the timber lintel, is a plaque which reads 'SCOUTS OF THIS PLACE LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID. THAT YOU WHO LIVE ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD. THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP. A RICHER HARVEST ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP'. Above, in the gable, is a square plaque which reads '24 NOTTM CAVENDISH SCOUT GROUP'.

The gateway marks the entrance to a Scout site comprisng a walled wood with a Scout hut linked to the gateway by a World War II memorial avenue of trees. A plaque in the hut reads 'THE AVENUE OF TREES PLANTED IN THANKSGIVING FOR VICTORY AND PEACE AND IN MEMORY OF SCOUTS WHO DIED IN THE WAR OF 1939-1945 WAS DEDICATED BY THE LORD BISHOP OF SOUTHWELL AND THIS TABLET UNVEILED IN THEIR HONOUR BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER LT. COL. N.G. PEARSON D.S.O ON SUNDAY MAY 12TH 1946'.

HISTORY: The gateway was built in memory of those Scouts who died in the First World War. The designer is not known but it is thought that it was a member of the Scout Association. It was constructed by the Nottingham City District Rover Scouts in 1927, and is said to incorporate timbers from Trent Bridge which was widened the previous year to accommodate increased traffic. It was dedicated on 21 August 1927 by the Chief Rover Scout Commissioner for England, Percy B Nevill, and also present were the Duchess of Newcastle and the President of the Nottingham Boy Scout Association, John C Boot (Chairman of Boots and grandson of the company's founder, Jesse Boot).

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: This First World War Memorial gateway is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * It is a poignant reminder of the impact of tragic world events on both the local community and the Scout movemnet; * It is testimony to the historic interest of Scouting as a C20 popular movement; * It has some good design features, for example the steeply sloping roof and the use of brick nogging; * It has group value as part of a very unusual Scout site comprisng a walled wood with a hut linked to the gateway by a World War II memorial avenue of trees. SK5655043407

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, 27 July 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 503640
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 July 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/66975
War Memorials Register, accessed 24 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/59048

Legal

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