Fowlmere War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1424153
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Fowlmere War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1424153
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Fowlmere War Memorial
- Location Description:
- London Road, Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, SG8 7SJ
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:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fowlmere
- National Grid Reference:
- TL4206345830
Summary
War memorial, erected 1919 and with later additions after the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Fowlmere War Memorial, on a crossroads in the centre of the village, is listed at Grade II for the following 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;
* Design: a well-executed memorial by a longstanding London firm;
* Group value: several listed buildings stand around the crossroads where the war memorial stands.
History
The memorial cost £120, raised by public subscription; the masons were Messrs G Maile & Son Ltd of 367 Euston Road, London. The memorial was dedicated on 10 December 1919, and re-dedicated on 20 September 2000 following cleaning and the addition of a further name.
Details
The stone war memorial cross stands in the centre of the village at the junction of London Road and High Street. It takes the form of a foliate cross on top of a tapering square shaft which rises from a plinth on a two-stepped base. The lower part of the cross shaft carries the inscriptions:
(side one) TO/ THE GLORY OF/ GOD/ AND IN PIOUS MEMORY OF/ OUR FOWLMERE MEN/ (NAMES)/ WHO FELL IN BATTLE DURING THE/ GREAT WAR, 1914 - 1918/ HE THAT LOSETH THIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE SHALL FIND IT
(side two) TO/ THE GLORY OF/ GOD/ AND IN PIOUS MEMORY OF/ OUR FOWLMERE MEN/ 1914 - 1918/ (NAMES)
(side three) TO/ THE GLORY OF/ GOD/ AND IN PIOUS MEMORY OF/ OUR FOWLMERE MEN/ 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)
There are eleven names of those who died in the First World War, and two of men who died in the Second; in 2000 one further name was added.
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, 16 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/46525
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/78386
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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