Poulton war memorial

London Road, Poulton, Gloucestershire

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Overview

A War Memorial, by Sidney Barnsley (1865-1926), dating from circa 1920, commemorating the Fallen of both the First and Second World Wars. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1410793
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-2012
List Entry Name:: Poulton war memorial
Statutory Address:: London Road, Poulton, Gloucestershire

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1410793
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-2012
List Entry Name:: Poulton war memorial
Statutory Address 1:: London Road, Poulton, Gloucestershire

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: London Road, Poulton, Gloucestershire

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Poulton
National Grid Reference:: SP1007801008

Summary

A War Memorial, by Sidney Barnsley (1865-1926), dating from circa 1920, commemorating the Fallen of both the First and Second World Wars.

Reasons for Designation

The war memorial at Poulton is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this community; * Architectural interest: for the quality of the design and craftsmanship of this sombre and dignified memorial and its inscriptions, and its association with Sidney Barnsley, a recognised architect and designer; * Group value: with the listed buildings on London Road opposite which it stands.

History

The memorial was designed by Sidney Barnsley (1865-1926), the renowned Cotswold Arts and Crafts architect and designer. It was erected circa 1920 to commemorate the 14 men of the village who fell in the First World War. After the Second World War, the names of three members of the Mitchell family of Poulton Priory – Vera Mitchell of the Women's Volunteer Service, her daughter Janet Lockett Mitchell of the British Red Cross Association, and her son Lieutenant Michael BA Mitchell, 3rd Batt. Coldstream Guards - were added, after they were all killed in a V-1 flying bomb attack on the Guards' Chapel at Wellington Barracks in London on 18 June 1944.

Details

MATERIALS: local limestone.

PLAN: the platform on which the memorial stands is square on plan, circa 2m across.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial is in the form of a small wheel cross carved in deep relief on a strongly-moulded, tapering, chamfered column, which has broach stops at the junction with the square base. The base is set upon a three-stepped platform. The base is inscribed THIS CROSS / WAS ERECTED BY / THE PEOPLE OF POULTON / IN MEMORY OF / THOSE WHO FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919. This is flanked by the names of the fourteen Fallen, which are carved into the returns. A plaque inscribed 1939-45 and with the names of those who died in the Second World War has been let into the riser of the top step of the platform.

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, 10 January 2017.

Sources

Books and journals
Brooks, A, Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds, (1999), 565
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/167748
War Memorials Register, accessed 2012 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20981

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.