Ringstead (Northamptonshire) War Memorial
Churchyard of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Church Street, Ringstead, Northamptonshire, NN14 4DH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1425578
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Ringstead (Northamptonshire) War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Churchyard of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Church Street, Ringstead, Northamptonshire, NN14 4DH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1425578
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Ringstead (Northamptonshire) War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Churchyard of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Church Street, Ringstead, Northamptonshire, NN14 4DH
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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
- Statutory Address:
- Churchyard of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Church Street, Ringstead, Northamptonshire, NN14 4DH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ringstead
- National Grid Reference:
- SP9859475136
Summary
First World War memorial. 1924, with later additions.
Reasons for Designation
Ringstead (Northamptonshire) War Memorial, which stands in the churchyard of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 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: a well-executed medieval-style cross;
* Group value: with the Grade I-listed Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
History
The memorial was unveiled on 4 July 1924 by Colonel J Brown DSO. It was given to the village by Mr H A Billson, a shoe manufacturer from Northampton. Names commemorating the dead of the Second World War, and the name of a Paratrooper who died during the Aden Emergency in 1967, were added.
Details
The war memorial stands in the churchyard of the Grade I-listed Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, overlooking the village street. The memorial is in the form of a granite cross, with simple raised interlace to the front of the shaft. On the front face of its tapering plinth the dedication, in applied metal lettering, reads TO THE GLORY OF GOD./ IN PIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN/ OF RINGSTED WHO FELL DURING/ THE GREAT WAR/ AND/ IN GRATITUDE FOR THE MERCIES/ OF A LIFETIME THIS CROSS IS/ THE HUMBLE OFFERING OF/ HERBERT ALFRED BILLSON,/ WHO LOVED THE VILLAGE./ JESU MERCY.
The names of the fallen and of those who died in the Second World War appear on the other faces of the plinth, along with one individual who died in 1967. The plinth stands on a three-stepped, granite base.
The concrete-flagged surrounding path and approach is excluded from the listing.
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
Rushden and District History Society Research Group. Ringstead Church and War Memorial, accessed 19/02/2015 from http://www.rushdenheritage.co.uk/Villages/Ringstead/ringstead-warmemorial.html
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/60879
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/211061
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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