Hauxton War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1425399
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Hauxton War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1425399
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Hauxton War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Churchyard of St Edmund's Church, Church Road, Hauxton, Cambridgeshire, CB22 5HS
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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.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hauxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL4359552157
Summary
First World War memorial, 1922, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Hauxton’s war memorial, which stands south of St Edmund’s church, is listed at Grade II for the following principal 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: an elegant limestone cross;
* Group value: it stands alongside the Grade I-listed St Edmund’s church.
History
Hauxton war memorial was unveiled in 1922. An inscription and names commemorating those who died in the Second World War were added.
Details
The memorial stands close to the road in the churchyard of St Edmund’s parish church (listed Grade I). It is a 3m tall limestone cross with a wheel cross-head, with the wheel formed by a laurel wreath. The tapering octagonal shaft rises from a square plinth. On the south face of the plinth is inscribed IN MEMORY OF THE/ MEN WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ ALSO/ THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939 – 1945
On the other faces are inscribed:
(west) TO/ THE GLORY OF/ GOD.
(north) THEIR REWARD IS WITH/ THE LORD. WISDOM V. 15.
(east) FROM THIS PARISH,/ (NAMES: five for the First World War, two for the Second)
Around the base is a narrow flower bed defined by a stone kerb.
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
Roll of Honour (Cambridgeshire, Hauxton), accessed 24/12/2014 from http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/Hauxton.html
War Memorials Register, accessed 24/12/2014 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/46568
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/200078
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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