Holt War Memorial
Market Place, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 6BE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1407823
- Date first listed:
- 04-Apr-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Holt War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Market Place, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 6BE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1407823
- Date first listed:
- 04-Apr-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Holt War Memorial
- Location Description:
- The memorial is in the centre of the Market Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- Market Place, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 6BE
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:
- Market Place, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 6BE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holt
- National Grid Reference:
- TG0792838749
Summary
War Memorial to casualties of the First and Second World Wars, Korean War and Northern Ireland.
Reasons for Designation
Holt War Memorial is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historical interest: it is a moving reminder of the impact on the community of two World Wars and two later C20 conflicts, and of the sacrifices made
* Design: its elegant and carefully detailed design, raised high on steps and plinth, occupies a prominent position in the centre of the Market Place.
History
The Holt War Memorial was designed by the architect H. H. Palmer to commemorate those who gave their lives in the First World War, and was dedicated on 29th May 1921 at a ceremony performed by local clergy and dignitaries. Casualties of the Second World War, the Korean War (1950-1953) and the conflict in Northern Ireland have been added. In 2010 a grant from the War Memorials Trust, with donations from the District Council and other organisations and individuals, funded a project to restore the cross, repairing and replacing stonework, where necessary, using Clipsham stone and a hydraulic lime, mortar mix. The war memorial was rededicated on October 10th 2010.
Details
MATERIALS: made of Clipsham stone and consists of a cross standing on a seven-tier base and plinth. The wheel cross has carved trefoil decoration between its arms and surmounts a tapering octagonal shaft. Half way up the shaft are four shields, one to each side. Most of the inscriptions are carved into the top tier of the base, but there are others on panels on each face of the base, and on the plinth. As well as the names of the casualties of war, an inscription reads 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVER MORE'.
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, 23 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 23 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20082
War Memorials Online, accessed 23 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/135927
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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