Wimborne Minster War Memorial
WIMBORNE MINSTER WAR MEMORIAL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393153
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Wimborne Minster War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WIMBORNE MINSTER WAR MEMORIAL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393153
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Wimborne Minster War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WIMBORNE MINSTER WAR MEMORIAL, HIGH STREET
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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:
- WIMBORNE MINSTER WAR MEMORIAL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wimborne Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 00925 99965
Reasons for Designation
REASON FOR DESIGNATION DECISION The war memorial in Wimborne Minster has been designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It commemorates the dead from the First World War. * It is an elaborate design which has considerable architectural quality. * It has group value with the adjoining church which is listed at Grade I and adds considerably to the urban texture at the centre of the town.
Details
WIMBORNE MINSTER
1013/0/10005 HIGH STREET
23-FEB-09 WIMBORNE MINSTER WAR MEMORIAL
II
War memorial. 1921, probably by C E Ponting. Of stone.
It stands on three octagonal steps and has a moulded square plinth with broach stops. The inscription is carved within a laurel leaf wreath on the west side of the plinth and reads as follows: `TO THE FALLEN / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / WHOSE NAMES / ARE INSCRIBED / WITHIN THE / MINSTER.' Above, there is a tapering chamfered octagonal column with broach stops. Each of the four sides of the Decorated-style head contains carved figures within ogee crocketed niches. The representations are St George and the Dragon (south side), the Crucifixion (west), the Virgin and Child (east), and Saint Cuthburga (north). The head is topped by spiky crocketed pinnacles.
HISTORY
Following an appeal which was launched in 1919, this war memorial was erected in November 1921 to commemorate those who died during the Great War. In its overall design it is very similar to the memorials at Gillingham and at Marnhull in North Dorset, which are both attributed to C E Ponting, the Diocesan Architect of Salisbury.
REASON FOR DESIGNATION DECISION
The war memorial in Wimborne Minster is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* It commemorates the dead from the First World War.
* It is an elaborate design which has considerable architectural quality.
* It has group value with the adjoining church which is listed at Grade I and adds considerably to the urban texture at the centre of the town.
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, 7 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 503991
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 07/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/26678
War Memorials Online, accessed 07/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/97508
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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