Pocklington Memorial Cross
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1425570
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Pocklington Memorial Cross
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1425570
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Pocklington Memorial Cross
- Location Description:
- Market Street, Pocklington, Yorkshire, YO42 2AB
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.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pocklington
- National Grid Reference:
- SE8036349107
Summary
First World War memorial, 1921.
Reasons for Designation
Pocklington Memorial Cross, which stands in Market Street, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reason:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the First World War.
History
The war memorial commemorates the men of Pocklington lost in the First World War. Built by J Richardson of Pocklington, the cost was raised by their surviving comrades. It was unveiled on 20 November 1921 by the mothers of the first and last comrades to die, with local clergy in attendance. Railings on a curb around the memorial, which were erected after the unveiling and were still there in 1940, have gone. The flagpole which stands behind the memorial on a two-stage base is post-1940.
Details
The memorial is c4m tall. It comprises a Yorkshire brown stone cross on a tapering octagonal Yorkshire white stone shaft. This stands on a square pedestal of the same Yorkshire white stone. The pedestal bears the inscription TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND/ IN MEMORY OF OUR COMRADES/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918 (52 NAMES). The pedestal stands on a two-stepped base in a paved area, flanked by two small lawns with flower beds.
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, 1 February 2017.
Sources
Websites
Pocklington and District Local History Group. War Memorial Unveiling, Pocklington Weekly News, 26 November 1921, accessed 19/02/2015 from http://www.pocklingtonhistory.com/history/20thcentury/pocklingtoninww1/unveiling/index.php
Pocklington and District Local History Group. Pocklington War Memorial, accessed 19/02/2015 from http://www.pocklingtonhistory.com/history/20thcentury/pocklingtoninww1/warmemorial/index.php
War Memorials Register, accessed 1 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/34949
War Memorials Online, accessed 1 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/89466
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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