Lamport War Memorial, Northamptonshire

The Churchyard of All Saints' Church, High Street, Lamport, Northamptonshire, NN6 9HB

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Overview

First World War memorial, with additions for the Second World War. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1426582
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-2015
List Entry Name:: Lamport War Memorial, Northamptonshire
Statutory Address:: The Churchyard of All Saints' Church, High Street, Lamport, Northamptonshire, NN6 9HB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1426582
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-2015
List Entry Name:: Lamport War Memorial, Northamptonshire
Location Description:
Statutory Address 1:: The Churchyard of All Saints' Church, High Street, Lamport, Northamptonshire, NN6 9HB

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: The Churchyard of All Saints' Church, High Street, Lamport, Northamptonshire, NN6 9HB

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lamport
National Grid Reference:: SP7579074540

Summary

First World War memorial, with additions for the Second World War.

Reasons for Designation

Lamport war memorial, which stands in the churchyard of All Saints’ Church, 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: a well-executed and elaborately carved granite Celtic cross; * Group value: with the Grade I-listed All Saints’ church.

History

The memorial was presumably constructed c1920 like the majority of those in England, commemorating the servicemen of Lamport who died during the First World War. The names of those who died during the Second World War were added.

Details

The war memorial stands in the south-west corner of the churchyard of the church of All Saints’ (Grade I). The church stands on high ground, looking south to Lamport Hall (Grade I) and north and west to the Northamptonshire countryside.

The memorial is in the form of a c3m high granite wheel-headed Celtic cross with closely-carved interlace decoration to all four sides of the shaft and to the cross head. The shaft rises from a two-stage chamfered plinth, set on a square base. The inscriptions are in metal lettering on all four sides of the plinth:

(south, upper stage) (1 NAME)

(south, main stage) IN/ UNDYING MEMORY/ OF THE/ MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR. Below this on the square base is 1914 – 1919, also in metal lettering.

(west, upper stage) 1939 – 1945

(west, main stage) (4 NAMES)

(north, upper stage) (1 NAME)

(north, main stage) (4 NAMES)

(east, main stage) (3 NAMES)

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, 16 January 2017.

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/207374
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14988

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.