War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393878
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-2010
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393878
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-2010
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- 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:
- WAR MEMORIAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Buckenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0663591262
Details
84/0/10020
OLD BUCKENHAM
War Memorial
14-JUL-10
II
War memorial. 1919. By Sir Reginald Blomfield.
Description:
Ashlar with bronze cross. The memorial is similar to a wayside cross and stands on the village green. An octagonal plinth consisting of three irregular steps and a taller pedestal supports a tall octagonal shaft with cross summit to which is fixed a bronze sword. On the plinth are various inscription panels recording the names of the Fallen in the First World War with also, added later, the names of those Fallen in the Second World War.The memorial is unusual in being the gift of a single donor, Lionel Robinson of Old Buckenham Hall who was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1916.
The design is Blomfield's well-known 'Cross of Sacrifice' and it was used in all the Imperial War Graves Commission cemeteries and as a memorial in many places both in Britain and the Empire. It was designed to be able to be constructed in four sizes without detriment to the effect. Blomfield was, with Lutyens and Herbert Baker, a principal architect for the Commission and in the years after the First World War designed many monuments and memorials both for the Commission, other bodies, and as this case, for private clients. The design was very carefully considered and Blomfield wrote in his Memoirs:
'What I wanted to do in designing this Cross was to make it as abstract and impersonal as I could, to free it from any association with any particular style, and, above all, to keep clear of any of the sentimentalities of Gothic. This was a man's war far too terrible for any fripperies, and I hoped to get within range of the infinite in this symbol of the ideals of those who had gone out to die.'
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE:
This memorial is unusual in being the gift of a single donor, Lionel Robinson of Old Buckenham Hall who was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1916. The design is Blomfield's well-known 'Cross of Sacrifice' used in all the Imperial War Graves Commission cemeteries and as a memorial in many places both in Britain and the Empire.
Source.
Richard A. Fellows, Sir Reginald Blomfield, 1985, p.103-9 and 174.
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, 4 September 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 495549
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/53358
War Memorials Online, accessed 4 September 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/72156
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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