Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1421067
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-2014
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1421067
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-2014
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Stoke Road, Guildford, Surrey
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU9980550654
Summary
First World War memorial of c1922.
Reasons for Designation
The war memorial at Stoke Road, Guildford is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Group value: with the Church of St. John the Evangelist to the north, listed at Grade II*.
History
This War Memorial commemorates the fallen of the First World War and was built c1922 by subscriptions raised by the parishioners of Stoke Next Guildford. In 1989 it was moved from its original position north of St John’s Church and re-erected in its present position.
Details
This freestanding war memorial is situated north of the junction of Stoke and Stocton Roads. It is of wheeled Celtic cross form with a tapering shaft of tooled granite, stepped pedestal and an octagonal base of coursed Bargate stone. The carved inscription at the pedestal includes the following dedication: 'IN UNDYING MEMORY OF THOSE FROM / THIS PARISH OF STOKE NEXT GUILDFORD / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES / FOR KING AND COUNTRY HONOUR AND FREEDOM / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914–1918'. Names and ranks of the fallen are recorded below.
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, 5 December 2016.
Sources
Websites
STOKE NEXT GUILDFORD PARISHIONERS WW1, accessed from http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.23328/fromUkniwmSearch/1
War Memorials Register, accessed 5 December 2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/23328
War Memorials Online, accessed 5 December 2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/100791
Other
Surrey Archives: Photograph, 1923, Guildford, Stoke Church and War Memorial, ref:6316/1851,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
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