Bourn War Memorial, Cambridgeshire
Bourn War Memorial, The Green at the junction of High Street and Short Street, Bourn, CB23 2SG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1426174
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Bourn War Memorial, Cambridgeshire
- Statutory Address:
- Bourn War Memorial, The Green at the junction of High Street and Short Street, Bourn, CB23 2SG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1426174
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Bourn War Memorial, Cambridgeshire
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bourn War Memorial, The Green at the junction of High Street and Short Street, Bourn, CB23 2SG
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:
- Bourn War Memorial, The Green at the junction of High Street and Short Street, Bourn, CB23 2SG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bourn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3247956492
Summary
First World War memorial, 1920, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Bourn War Memorial, which stands on the Green at the junction of Short Street and High 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 conflicts of the C20.
History
The memorial was unveiled on 21 November 1920 by Colonel C T Heycock. The mason was Mr W Wade, the builder was Sydney Gauge and the manufacturers, Messrs Macintosh. The decision to erect a cross was arrived at by house-to-house voting, the result being 356 votes for the cross and 267 for a new set of church bells with accompanying dedicatory tablet inside the church. War Memorials Trust funded the repainting of the lettering in 2010.
Details
The memorial stands on a small Green at a road junction in the village. Constructed from Aberdeen granite, the memorial is in the form of a moulded wheel-head cross on a rectangular tapered plinth and square base. The memorial stands 2.6m high and is surrounded by a square area of kerbed paving. The raised kerbs carry a low leaf spear-point metal fence, over which a metal chain-link is suspended from metal posts at the corners and centre-points.
The memorial is inscribed on the front of the plinth ERECTED/ TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF BOURN/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ 1939 – 1945/ (1 NAME). The rear of the plinth is inscribed PASS NOT THIS STONE IN SORROW/ BUT IN PRIDE/ AND MAY YOU LIVE AS NOBLY/ AS THEY DIED. The names of the servicemen who were killed during the First World War are inscribed on the remaining sides of the plinth.
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 17/03/2015 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/882
War Memorials Trust, Grants Showcase, accessed 17/03/2015 from http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=850
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/121623
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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