Margaretting Memorial Wheel Cross
MARGARETTING MEMORIAL WHEEL CROSS, ROMAN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392790
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Margaretting Memorial Wheel Cross
- Statutory Address:
- MARGARETTING MEMORIAL WHEEL CROSS, ROMAN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392790
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Margaretting Memorial Wheel Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARGARETTING MEMORIAL WHEEL CROSS, ROMAN ROAD
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.
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:
- MARGARETTING MEMORIAL WHEEL CROSS, ROMAN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Margaretting
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67154 01760
Reasons for Designation
The war memorial at Margaretting is designated in grade II for the following principal reasons. * It is an architecturally distinct commemorative memorial exhibiting quality of design by F W Chancellor, an architect with other listed structures to his name. * It is a fitting tribute to those of the local community who died in two World Wars which had a profound effect on the local community, the history of the country and internationally.
Details
MARGARETTING
719/0/10112 ROMAN ROAD
16-SEP-08 Margaretting Memorial Wheel Cross
II
A war memorial of c.4m, unveiled in 1920, designed by F W Chancellor and constructed by JB Slythe and Co. It lies within an enclosure of low brick walls capped with stone, approached by a central flight of steps. The cross is on a splayed plinth on a stone base and comprises a shaft with wheeled cross. On the front face of the plinth is the following carved inscription. 'FOR GOD KING AND COUNTRY/IN EVER GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/THE MEN OF MARGARETTING/WHO FOUGHT AND GAVE THEIR LIVES/IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED BY THE PARISHONERS.'
Beneath are the names of the fallen of the First World War and subsequently the names of the Second World War dead are added on the stone base beneath.
MATERIALS
The memorial is constructed of rough hewn granite on a stone base.
HISTORY
Similar to so many communities nationally, the small village of Margaretting lost many men in the First World War. The memorial records 14 dead from the First World War and was initially unveiled by Major Upton on 2nd October 1920, following a memorial service and dedicated by the Bishop of Barking, J T Inskip. The names of the fallen from the Second World War were added subsequently.
SOURCES
United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials ((UKNIWM) REF 22328
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION
The war memorial at Margaretting is designated in grade II for the following principal reasons.
* It is an architecturally distinct commemorative memorial exhibiting quality of design by F W Chancellor, an architect with other listed structures to his name.
* It is a fitting tribute to those of the local community who died in two World Wars which had a profound effect on the local community, the history of the country and internationally.
Listing NGR TL6715501759
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 12 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 505342
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 12 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/22328
War Memorials Online, accessed 12 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/101768
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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