Isham War Memorial
Churchyard wall of St Peter's Church, Kettering Road, Isham, Northamptonshire, NN14 1HL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1426573
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Isham War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Churchyard wall of St Peter's Church, Kettering Road, Isham, Northamptonshire, NN14 1HL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1426573
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Isham War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Churchyard wall of St Peter's Church, Kettering Road, Isham, Northamptonshire, NN14 1HL
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 wall of St Peter's Church, Kettering Road, Isham, Northamptonshire, NN14 1HL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Isham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP8848473938
Summary
First World War memorial with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Isham war memorial, a niche with tablets in the churchyard wall, 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;
* Design: including a well-executed limestone tablet;
* Group value: with the Grade II*-listed church of St Peter.
History
The First World War memorial was presumably, like most war memorials in England, erected c1920. Later, two tablets were added to the memorial to commemorate the Second World War.
Details
The First World War memorial is an inscribed limestone tablet set into a niche in the west churchyard wall of the church of St Peter (Grade II*) on line with and below the church’s west tower. The niche has an arched, moulded, limestone cornice above it, and is defined to either end by ironstone buttresses. The tablet is divided by a central, stylised, wheel-head cross carved in relief.
To the left of the cross is inscribed in raised lettering TO THE GLORY/ OF GOD AND IN/ MEMORY OF THE/ BRAVE WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT/ WAR 1914 – 1918, and to the right the names of the fallen followed by RIP. Two small, plain, stone tablets flank the main inscription. That to the left is inscribed 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES), and that to the right WE WILL/ REMEMBER/ THEM.
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/37455
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/217086
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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