Tansor War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1424187
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Tansor War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1424187
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Tansor War Memorial
- Location Description:
- The churchyard of St Mary's Church, Tansor, Northamptonshire, PE8 5HN
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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.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tansor
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0537090892
Summary
War memorial. Presumably erected c1920.
Reasons for Designation
Tansor’s War Memorial, which stands alongside the church of St Mary the Virgin, 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;
* Group value: it stands alongside the Grade II*-listed church of St Mary the Virgin.
History
The war memorial was presumably erected in or soon after 1920 like the majority of those across the country. The six men from the village who died during the First World War fell in a fourteen month period during 1916 and 1917.
Details
The memorial stands in the churchyard, close to the east end of the Grade II*-listed church of St Mary the Virgin. Approximately 3m tall, it consists of a limestone cross in the medieval style, with a Greek cross head with a raised crown on the face set on a rectangular shaft. This rises from an octagonal plinth which stands on a two-stepped octagonal base. Four of the plinth’s faces bear the inscriptions:
(first face) TO THE GLORIOUS/ MEMORY OF THE/ MEN OF TANSOR/ WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR THEIR/ COUNTRY 1914-1918/ THEIR NAME LIVETH/ FOR EVERMORE
(second face) THAT HAVING/ ALL THINGS/ DONE, AND ALL/ YOUR CONFLICTS/ PAST, YE MAY/ OBTAIN THROUGH/ CHRIST ALONE/ A CROWN OF/ JOY AT LAST.
(third face) THEIR REWARD/ IS WITH THE/ LORD AND THE/ CARE OF THEM/ IS WITH THE/ MOST HIGH.
The names of the six men of the parish who died are inscribed on a fourth face.
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, 17 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
The Bedfordshire Regiment in the Great War, Tansor War Memorial record, accessed 15/12/2014 from http://www.bedfordregiment.org.uk/gravesandmemorials/Tansor/tansormemorial.html
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/8457
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/178321
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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