Memorial Shell Casing, Baltonsborough
Baltonsborough, Glastonbury, Somerset
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1421811
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-2014
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial Shell Casing, Baltonsborough
- Statutory Address:
- Baltonsborough, Glastonbury, Somerset
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1421811
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-2014
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial Shell Casing, Baltonsborough
- Location Description:
- Centred on NGR ST5422534895
- Statutory Address 1:
- Baltonsborough, Glastonbury, Somerset
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:
- Baltonsborough, Glastonbury, Somerset
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Baltonsborough
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5422534895
Summary
Memorial in the form of a shell casing. Unveiled in 1922 and donated by the National War Saving Committee.
Reasons for Designation
The memorial shell casing is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Design: it is a highly unusual and broodingly eloquent commemorative monument;
* Historic interest: as a poignant witness to the tragic impact of a world events on this community, and the sacrifices it has made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Group value: it has a strong spatial and historic relationship with the adjacent war memorial cross.
History
During the First World War the Government needed to both reduce borrowing and to raise funds for the war effort. Consequently, in 1916 the National War Savings Committee was established to encourage communities to raise money to help the war effort. From late 1917 until the end of the conflict it was responsible for a series of local initiatives, such as War Weapons Week and Tank Week, in various parts of the country where people were encouraged to raise a certain amount of money in a single week for arms and munitions. These were followed in November 1918 by Feed the Guns Week. The second memorial at Baltonsborough takes the from of an engraved shell casing which was given to the village by the National War Saving Committee in recognition of its contribution in raising money during Gun Week. A Roll of Honour plaque to commemorate the men of the village who served during the Great War was added. The shell casing which was mounted on a millstone was unveiled in 1922 at the same time as the adjacent war memorial cross.
Details
Memorial in the form of a shell casing. Unveiled in 1922 and donated by the National War Saving Committee.
DESCRIPTION: it comprises a 15in BL siege howitzer shell casing which stands on a millstone with a circular concrete base (originally a brick base) beneath. The shell carries two plaques. The one to the front is bronze and is inscribed: PRESENTED BY THE NATIONAL WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE TO THE PEOPLE OF BALTONSBOROUGH TO COMMEMORATE THEIR NOTABLE CONTRIBUTION DURING GUN WEEK, 1918. The second is a brass plaque which carries the following inscription: ROLL OF HONOUR/ 1914 - 1918/ IN HONOURED REMEMBRANCE/ OF THE MEN OF/ BALTONSBOROUGH/ WHO FOUGHT IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ ROYAL NAVY/ (NAMES)/ ARMY/ (NAMES AND RANK). The names of the fallen are marked with a cross.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: in front of the memorial is a late C20 post and chain link and fence and mid-C20 metal gates which are excluded from the listing.
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, 14 December 2016.
Sources
Books and journals
P Stamper, , Conservation Bulletin, Issue 71 in Tank Banks, (November 2013), 10-11
Websites
Somerset, Baltonsborough War Memorial - Shell Case Provenance, accessed from http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Somerset/Baltonsborough.html
War Memorials Register, accessed 14/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/24380
War Memorials Online, accessed 14/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/99752
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
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