Stoke Bruerne and Shutlanger War Memorial
Churchyard of St Mary's Church, Church Lane, Stoke Bruerne, NN12 7SA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1426133
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Stoke Bruerne and Shutlanger War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Churchyard of St Mary's Church, Church Lane, Stoke Bruerne, NN12 7SA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1426133
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Stoke Bruerne and Shutlanger War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Churchyard of St Mary's Church, Church Lane, Stoke Bruerne, NN12 7SA
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:
- Churchyard of St Mary's Church, Church Lane, Stoke Bruerne, NN12 7SA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Bruerne
- National Grid Reference:
- SP7405749819
Summary
First World War memorial, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Stoke Bruerne and Shutlanger War Memorial, which stands alongside the church of St Mary the Virgin, 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;
* Group value: it stands alongside the Grade II*-listed church of St Mary the Virgin.
History
The memorial records the servicemen of Stoke Bruerne and the adjoining village of Shutlanger who died during the First World War, and also Sister Elsie Anne Bull who nursed soldiers in France and Serbia. Sister Bull died in 1919 as a result of sickness contracted on service, and is buried in the churchyard. The memorial was presumably erected in or soon after 1920 like the majority of those across the country. The names of two servicemen from Shutlanger who died during the Second World War were added later.
Details
The memorial stands in the churchyard, close to the south-west corner of the Grade II*-listed church of St Mary the Virgin. It consists of a white marble obelisk, c2.5 m high, with a small wreath carved in relief at the top of the front (east) face. The obelisk is set on a splayed plinth, which itself stands on a square base, both of white marble. A shallow, chamfered, lower base is of a red stone.
Inscriptions in applied metal lettering on the plinth and base read:
(north face) (9 NAMES)
(east face) TO THE GLORY OF/ GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF THE/ BRAVE MEN,/ WHO FROM/ STOKE BRUERNE & SHUTLANGER/ GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-18 and on the base GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIEND.
(south face) (10 NAMES)
(west face) SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ THE TWO BRAVE MEN/ FROM SHUTLANGER/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ THE SECOND GREAT WAR/ 1939 - 1945 (NAMES) and on the base “AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN/ THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.”
The memorial stands on a concrete surround defined by an elaborate low iron chain, suspended from corner and mid-posts.
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
Roll of Honour (Northamptonshire, Stoke Bruerne), accessed 16/03/2015 from http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Northamptonshire/StokeBruerne.html
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/15089
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/146240
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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