Bridgtown War Memorial

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First World War memorial, erected c1920, with Second World War additions. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1423913
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-2015
List Entry Name:: Bridgtown War Memorial

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1423913
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-2015
List Entry Name:: Bridgtown War Memorial
Location Description:: Junction of Longford Road and North Street.

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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Location

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County:: Staffordshire
District:: Cannock Chase (District Authority)
Parish:: Bridgtown
National Grid Reference:: SJ9813808743

Summary

First World War memorial, erected c1920, with Second World War additions.

Reasons for Designation

Bridgtown war memorial, erected c 1920, with Second World War additions, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of a world events on this community, and the sacrifices it has made in the conflicts of the C20; * Design: as an accomplished and well-realised war memorial which takes the form of a marble obelisk.

History

The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. One such memorial was erected in Bridgtown in Staffordshire to commemorate the 40 men of the parish who died during the conflict. Following the Second World War a second dedicatory inscription was added to commemorate the 10 local men who died during this conflict.

Details

A First World War memorial, erected c1920, with Second World War additions.

MATERIALS: of marble.

PLAN: it is square on plan.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands in a small enclosure at the junction between North Street and Longford Road and faces south-east. It takes the form of an obelisk standing upon a single-step base. The base supports a chamfered plinth on which stands a tapered pedestal. An obelisk rises from the pedestal and tapers in square section to a pyramidal top. A decorative band incised with a Greek fret motif runs round the shaft just below its mid point. To the pedestal's south-east face there is an oval-shaped relief of a dead soldier wearing a helmet and the inscription ‘OUR / GLORIOUS DEAD / 1914 1918’ . The south-west, south-east and north-west faces of the obelisk's shaft are inscribed with the names of the 40 men of the parish who died during this conflict. The north-east and south-west faces of the pedestal both bear the inscription ‘1939 - 45 WAR’ with the names of the fallen beneath.

The war memorial stands within an irregular-shaped enclosure of which the rear is formed by the early-C20, brick boundary wall to Bridgtown Primary School whilst the front is enclosed by late-C20 railings. These features are excluded from the listing.

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, 19 January 2017.

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/193283
War Memorials Register, accessed 2 December 2014 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/29085

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.