Hambrook War Memorial
Whiteshill Common, Whiteshill, Hambrook, BS16 1SD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1425840
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Hambrook War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Whiteshill Common, Whiteshill, Hambrook, BS16 1SD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1425840
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Hambrook War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Whiteshill Common, Whiteshill, Hambrook, BS16 1SD
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
- Statutory Address:
- Whiteshill Common, Whiteshill, Hambrook, BS16 1SD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6452479314
Summary
A war memorial cross of inter-war date.
Reasons for Designation
Hambrook war memorial, South Gloucestershire is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impacts of world events on this community, and the sacrifices it has made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Architectural interest: a simple cross design, well-crafted in dressed pennant stone;
* Intactness: the structure is unaltered;
* Group value: it groups well with the neighbouring listed buildings.
History
Hambrook War Memorial dates from the initial phase of commemoration after the First World War, and is shown on the Ordnance Survey Map of 1935. It appears to be little altered since its first construction, although the names of the fallen in the Second World War have been added.
Details
A war memorial of interwar date.
MATERIALS: constructed of pennant stone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial is a freestanding Celtic cross with a three-stepped base surmounted by a tapered plinth and shaft. The sides of the plinth and top step are inscribed: West Face: IN MEMORIAM/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ THIS CROSS IS ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS/ OF THE CIVIL PARISH OF WINTERBOURNE/ AND DEDICATED IN GRATEFUL
REMEMBRANCE/ TO OUR MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR US/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918/ AND WHOSE NAMES ARE INSCRIBED HEREON/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT/ A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS” JOHN.15.13/ 1939 - 1945/ AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN/ AND IN THE MORNING/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM; South Face: FRENCHAY/ (NAMES); East Face: WINTERBOURNE DOWN/ (NAMES); North Face: WINTERBOURNE/ (NAMES).
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 02/03/2015 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/153828?search=search_map%3Fsearch_value%3Dhambrook
War Memorials Register, accessed 02/03/2015 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/46236
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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