Water Trough and War Memorial
WATER TROUGH AND WAR MEMORIAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393076
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Water Trough and War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WATER TROUGH AND WAR MEMORIAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393076
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Water Trough and War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER TROUGH AND WAR MEMORIAL
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:
- WATER TROUGH AND WAR MEMORIAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kilverstone
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 89412 84210
Reasons for Designation
This early C20 water trough is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * It is an unusual example of a water trough designed in the Arts and Crafts style. * It is of high quality design and displays good architectural details. * It is by a known architect with other listed buildings to his name. * It is largely intact. * Its subsequent dedication to the dead of the First World War gives it added historic interest
Details
KILVERSTONE
1004/0/10009 Water Trough and War Memorial
06-JAN-09
II
A water trough, circa 1902, designed by Edward Thomas Boardman (1861 - 1950). Subsequently dedicated as a First World War memorial.
MATERIALS: Shuttered concrete, shingles, tiles and cast iron.
PLAN: Square base with semi-octagonal trough.
EXTERIOR: This water trough is of shuttered concrete with a pyramidal, shingled, hipped roof mounted by a ball top lead finial. On the south side is a lead gargoyle at eaves level which directs rainwater into a trough below. It has a square base with 4 projecting buttresses on the east and west sides. All four sides have arcading decorated by tile creasing within the arch. Both the east and west external walls are detailed with chequered tile creasing and have a wooden bench. The north side has an entrance with two steps and a pair of cast iron gates. The south side has a semi-octagonal water trough with the water access also decorated with tile creasing. The south side also has two bands of tile creasing and two memorial plaques: the upper plaques is inscribed 'THE GRIEF THAT LINGERS, AND THE PRIDE THAT BURNS, ALL THAT LOVE MEANS AND HONOUR CAN EXPRESS' and the lower plaque is inscribed 'THERE IS SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOREVER ENGLAND. 1914. 1918. FRANCE. (NAMES). MESOPOTAMIA. (NAME). SALONICA. (NAME). WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR.'
INTERIOR: The lower part of the south wall is faced with glazed red tiles. A concrete step leads to a concrete basin containing a standpipe.
HISTORY: This water trough was commissioned in circa 1902 by the armaments manufacturer, Josiah Vavasseur of Kilverstone Hall. Sometime after 1918, it had two plaques added commemorating the parish dead of the First World War.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: This early C20 water trough is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* It is an unusual example of an Arts and Crafts designed water trough.
* It is of high quality design and displays good architectural detailing.
* It is by a known architect with other listed buildings to his name.
* It is largely intact.
* It having been subsequently dedicated to the parish dead of the First World War gives it added historic interest.
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, 20 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 503741
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/19815
War Memorials Online, accessed 20 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/137257
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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