Blackmore Memorial Cross
The Green, Blackmore, Essex, CM4 0RT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1427545
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Blackmore Memorial Cross
- Statutory Address:
- The Green, Blackmore, Essex, CM4 0RT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1427545
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Blackmore Memorial Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Green, Blackmore, Essex, CM4 0RT
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:
- The Green, Blackmore, Essex, CM4 0RT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blackmore, Hook End and Wyatts Green
- National Grid Reference:
- TL6042301823
Summary
First World War memorial, 1920.
Reasons for Designation
Blackmore Memorial Cross, situated on the village green, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reason:
* Historic Interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this local community, and the sacrifice it made in the First World War.
History
Blackmore Memorial Cross was built by Messrs Wray and Fuller at a cost of £274, and was unveiled on 7 November 1920 by Lt Col T Gibbons DSO. The memorial records the names of those servicemen from the village who died fighting during the First World War, and also those who served and returned. In 2010 the memorial was cleaned and the lettering was re-cut and re-enamelled, funded by War Memorials Trust.
Details
The memorial stands in a prominent position on the north-west corner of The Green. Approximately 4m tall and built of granite, it consists of a plain Latin cross set on a hexagonal column with a stepped base, rising from a hexagonal plinth. The plinth stands on two hexagonal steps.
The incised inscriptions are enamelled. That on the front face of the plinth reads IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 (21 NAMES). Additional inscriptions carved on both plinth faces either side of the front face read THE FOLLOWING CONNECTED/ WITH BLACKMORE ALSO/ SERVED IN HIS MAJESTY’S/ FORCES. The 81 names of those who served and returned are carved on the plinth. An inscription on the front face of the upper step reads THEIR NAME LIVETH/ FOR EVERMORE.
The memorial stands in a small area paved with granite setts. The paths are interspersed with small flower beds. The whole is surrounded by a square path of granite setts and enclosed on three sides by a chain suspended from seven granite bollards.
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, 12 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
Blackmore Area Local History, accessed 22/05/2015 from http://www.blackmorehistory.co.uk/blackmorewwone.html
War Memorials Trust, Grants Showcase - Blackmore, accessed 22/05/2015 from http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=879
War Memorials Register, accessed 12 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/22069
War Memorials Online, accessed 12 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/132372
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
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