Kingskerswell War Memorial and associated paved area and screen wall
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1424148
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Kingskerswell War Memorial and associated paved area and screen wall
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1424148
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Kingskerswell War Memorial and associated paved area and screen wall
- Location Description:
- Kingskerswell War Memorial, Fore Street, Kingskerswell, Devon
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:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingskerswell
- National Grid Reference:
- SX8786567827
Summary
A War Memorial erected in 1921 to commemorate the local men who lost their lives whilst serving their country in the First World War, and subsequently also dedicated to those local men who lost their lives during the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Kingskerswell war memorial and associated paved area and curved screen wall is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impacts of world events on this community, and the sacrifices it has made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Architectural interest: a simple cross design on a stepped base, well-crafted in granite with a matching curved screen wall;
* Intactness: the structure is unaltered.
History
The War Memorial at Kingskerswell was funded by public subscription and dedicated in 1921 by Sir Alfred Goodson. It was erected on land donated by Mrs Michelmore in memory of her son Lt. Michelmore who died as a result of his wounds and whose name is one of the 36 names of local men who lost their lives whilst serving their country in the First World War. After the Second World War, the monument was dedicated to a further seven local men.
Details
A war memorial erected in 1921 to commemorate the local men who lost their lives whilst serving their country in the First World War, and subsequently also dedicated to those local men who lost their lives during the Second World War.
The memorial is constructed in granite, and consists of a freestanding cross set on a three-tier hexagonal base. It stands beside a road junction in a semi-circular paved area screened by a curved granite stone rubble wall terminated by square piers with flat square stone slab copings.
At the base of the cross is a square bronze plague with the words:
'TO THE GLORY OF GOD - AND - IN MEMORY OF THE BRAVE MEN OF - KINGSKERSWELL - WHO DIED FOR KING AND COUNTRY - IN THE GREAT WAR - 1914 - 1919 - GREATER LOVE HAS NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.
Below it is a bronze plaque with the thirty six names of the Fallen. A further bronze plaque on the middle tier of the base, reads 'AND IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945' followed with the seven names of the Fallen.
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 5 October 2017.
Sources
Websites
Devon Heritage, accessed 16 December 2014 from http://www.devonheritage.org/Places/Kingskerswell/KingskerswellWarMemorial1914-1918.htm
War Memorials Trust - Showcase Result, accessed 16 December 2014 from http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=79
War Memorials Online, accessed 5 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/98236
War Memorials Register, accessed 8 December 2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25931
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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