Warkton War Memorial
Churchyard of St Edmund's Church, Warkton, Kettering, NN16 9XF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1426140
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Warkton War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Churchyard of St Edmund's Church, Warkton, Kettering, NN16 9XF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1426140
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Warkton War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Churchyard of St Edmund's Church, Warkton, Kettering, NN16 9XF
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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 St Edmund's Church, Warkton, Kettering, NN16 9XF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Warkton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP8933079825
Summary
First World War memorial, erected 1920.
Reasons for Designation
Warkton War Memorial, which stands east of the chancel of St Edmund’s church, is listed at Grade II for the following 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 church of St Edmund.
History
Warkton’s war memorial cross was made by Messrs Morris & Sons of Kettering. It was unveiled by Flight Lieutenant Harold Whistler, DSO, DFC, a Royal Flying Corps ace who had attended Oundle School (Northamptonshire), on the afternoon of Passion Sunday (28 March) 1920. A crowd of 3-400 attended.
Details
The Warkton memorial, a c3.5m high Clipsham stone cross, stands east of the chancel of St Edmund’s church (listed Grade I), due east of the altar. The memorial comprises a bottonée cross at the head of an octagonal shaft, rising from a square plinth. That stands on a two-stage octagonal base, around which is a stone-edged gravel path.
The inscriptions on the plinth, in raised lettering, read:
(south face) TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY/ OF THE MEN FROM THIS/ PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR,/ 1914-1919.
(west face) ERECTED BY/ RELATIVES, PARISHIONERS,/ AND FRIENDS/ AS A TOKEN OF/ HONOUR AND RESPECT.
(north face) GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.
(east face) (5 NAMES) THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
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
Books and journals
Warkton Heritage, , Warkton: A Village in Northamptonshire, (2006), 96-8
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14862
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/216307
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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