Yaxley Cemetery War Memorial
Yaxley Cemetery, Waterslade Road, Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, PE7 3NF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1426594
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Yaxley Cemetery War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Yaxley Cemetery, Waterslade Road, Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, PE7 3NF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1426594
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Yaxley Cemetery War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Yaxley Cemetery, Waterslade Road, Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, PE7 3NF
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:
- Yaxley Cemetery, Waterslade Road, Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, PE7 3NF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yaxley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1742191977
Summary
First World War memorial, 1920, with additions for later conflicts.
Reasons for Designation
Yaxley War Memorial, Cambridgeshire, which stands in the village cemetery, 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 conflicts of the C20 and C21;
* Design: a substantial and sombre memorial.
History
The memorial, commemorating the servicemen from Yaxley who died during the First World War, was unveiled in 1920 by Dr HS Cooper and Mr W Goodman. It was made by Mr R Cox of Peterborough at a cost of £185. The names of servicemen and women who died in the Second World War were later added, as was the name of a Royal Marine who died in Iraq in 2007.
Details
The memorial stands on the southern side of the village cemetery, close to the gate on Waterslade Road. It comprises a c2m high, dark grey, rough-hewn Aberdeen Granite rectangular-sectioned block. Carved in relief to the head of the south face are the Union and French flags with 1914 above and 1919 below.
Inscribed below the flags in carved, painted lettering is TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ WHO CHAMPIONED OUR CAUSE IN THE GREAT WAR/ AND FOR US MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ (39 NAMES)/ “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS”.
On the east face is carved in relief 1939 1945 with the 21 names of those men and women who died during the Second World War beneath, in precisely similar style to the First World War names. On the north face an inscription records the death of a local soldier in Iraq in 2007.
In about 2010 the memorial was reset on a three-stage black marble stepped base, and a black marble tablet commemorating the death of a Polish pilot killed nearby in 1943 was placed alongside. These are excluded from the listing, as are five Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstones and a surrounding concrete post and chain fence.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 08/04/2015 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/394
Yaxley Heritage Project. Yaxley War Memorial, accessed 08/04/2015 from http://www.yaxleyhistory.org/places-and-objects/memorials/yaxley-war-memorial/
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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