Orleton War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1417366
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-2013
- List Entry Name:
- Orleton War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1417366
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-2013
- List Entry Name:
- Orleton War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Located on a corner site between the junction of Millbrook Way and Kitchen Hill Road, Orleton, Herefordshire.
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Orleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO4908367087
Summary
First World War memorial located on a corner site between Kitchen Hill Road and Millbrook Way. Date of commemoration unknown.
Reasons for Designation
The war memorial at Orleton is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: it has strong cultural and historical significance within both a local and national context as an eloquent witness to the impact of tragic world events on this community;
* Architectural interest: an accomplished and well-realised war memorial which takes the simple form of the Celtic cross;
* Intactness: the memorial is situated in its original, prominent location and survives intact with its associated boundary wall and railings.
History
The great age of memorial building was in the aftermath of the First World War. It is not known when the war memorial at Orleton was erected and commemorated but it was likely to be during the 1920s.
The war memorial received a grant from War Memorials Trust in 2009 for conservation and repair works, and the addition of a previously omitted name.
Details
MATERIALS: constructed of stone.
DESCRIPTION: the war memorial consists of a Celtic style Latin wheel cross. The cross is surmounted on a two-stepped base into which the memorial inscription panels are set, the lettering incised and painted. The inscription to the east face of the upper panel reads:
1914-1918 / IN MEMORY OF / ORLETON MEN
and below are listed the names of the fifteen men who died in the First World War. To the south face of the upper panel the inscription reads:
1939 – 1945 / IN MEMORY OF
and lists the name of one man who died in the Second World War.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the memorial is enclosed by a rubble stone wall surmounted by wrought-iron railings with spear heads to the front and modern railings to the rear. The memorial is accessed via a wrought-iron gate between two stone gate piers with ashlar upper sections and pyramidal caps, and approached by steps.
Sources
Websites
, accessed from http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=517
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/33076
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/91266
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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