Great Cransley War Memorial
Junction of Church Lane and Broughton Hill, Great Cransley, Northamptonshire, NN14 1PX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1426571
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Great Cransley War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Junction of Church Lane and Broughton Hill, Great Cransley, Northamptonshire, NN14 1PX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1426571
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Great Cransley War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Junction of Church Lane and Broughton Hill, Great Cransley, Northamptonshire, NN14 1PX
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:
- Junction of Church Lane and Broughton Hill, Great Cransley, Northamptonshire, NN14 1PX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cransley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP8309176773
Summary
First World War memorial with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Cransley’s war memorial, at the end of Church Lane near the intersection with Broughton Hill, 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: with the Grade II-listed White Hill Farmhouse.
History
The memorial was erected to commemorate servicemen from the parish who died in the First World War. The name of one further man who died during the Second World War was added later.
Details
The memorial stands in a small enclosure defined to the rear by a low stone wall and to the front by chains supported on two stone piers. It is a 2.5m high limestone Latin cross with a small wreath carved on the face of the cross head. The cross shaft rises from a small pyramidal support on a square, plinth which stands on a two-stage stepped octagonal base.
On the front of the plinth in raised lettering is IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS/ PARISH WHO DIED/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY/1914 1918. The other three faces carry the names of those who died. An inscription in similar style on the pyramid on top of the plinth reads AND ALSO/ (NAME)/ 1939 – 1945 WAR.
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
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14854
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/191896
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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