Filton War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1427009
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Filton War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1427009
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Filton War Memorial
- Location Description:
- 10m to the south of the Church of St Peter, Church Road, Filton
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Filton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6031679171
Summary
A First World War memorial with a stone tablet added later to commemorate later conflicts.
Reasons for Designation
Filton War Memorial 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;
* Architectural interest: a modest, yet elegant, roughly-hewn cross tops the elongated plinth;
* Group value: it forms part of a good group of listed structures including the Church of St Peter (Grade II) and another commemorative structure, a nearby C18 churchyard monument (Grade II).
History
The memorial is within the churchyard of the church of St Peter (Grade II). Originally erected to commemorate the fallen of the First World War, it was later altered to remember those who died during the Second World War and later conflicts. Within the church are two further memorials which commemorate the casualties of war within in the parish of Filton. One commemorates the employees of the nearby aircraft works who lost their lives in both World Wars, and the other remembers the casualties of the September 1940 daylight raid on the Filton Aircraft Factory.
Details
A First World War memorial with a stone tablet added later to commemorate later conflicts.
MATERIALS: granite
DESCRIPTION: A roughly-hewn Latin cross tops a tall tapering plinth on a square base. The dedication is depicted in raised lettering applied to the front (south) face of the plinth which reads ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ TO THE GLORIOUS/ MEMORY OF’, followed by the names of those who died during the First World War. Below the dedication continues and reads ‘MEN OF FILTON / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE/ ERECTED BY THE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS’. A granite stone tablet has been placed in front of the memorial that reads ‘IN COMMEMORATION OF THOSE/ WHO LIVED AND WORKED IN FILTON/ AND WHO LOST THEIR LIVES/ IN WORLD WAR TWO/ AND SUBSEQUENT CONFLICTS’.
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, 11 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 24 April 2015 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/7429
South Gloucestershire War Memorials, accessed 24 April 2015 from http://www.southglos.gov.uk/Documents/War%20memorial%20sites.pdf
War Memorials Online, accessed 11 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/214286
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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