Minstead Memorial Cross
The Green, Minstead, Hampshire, SO43 7GS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1427622
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Minstead Memorial Cross
- Statutory Address:
- The Green, Minstead, Hampshire, SO43 7GS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1427622
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Minstead Memorial Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Green, Minstead, Hampshire, SO43 7GS
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, Minstead, Hampshire, SO43 7GS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- New Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Minstead
- National Park:
- New Forest
- National Grid Reference:
- SU2814611011
Summary
First World War memorial, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Minstead Memorial Cross, which stands 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 the local community, and the sacrifices it has made in the conflicts of the C20.
History
Minstead Memorial Cross was probably erected during the first phase of memorialisation in the 1920s, to commemorate the men of the parish who had died whilst fighting during the First World War. An inscription for the Second World War was added at a later date.
Details
The memorial stands at the south-west corner of the green in the centre of Minstead village. It is situated next to a well, which is marked on the earliest Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map of the area (published in 1869). The well is capped, at ground level, by a square wooden cover with ornamental wrought iron hinges and handle. The memorial and well are surrounded by an octagonal area of paving and an oak post-and-rail fence.
The memorial is approximately 3m tall and is made of Bath stone. It comprises a floriated cross set on a hexagonal shaft, which rises from a moulded base. The base stands on a square plinth which bears the inscriptions. The plinth stands on a low, square step.
The inscription on the front of the plinth, carved in relief, reads 'IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN FROM/ THIS PARISH/ WHO DIED FOR/ KING & COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT/ WAR 1914 - 1919/ 1939 - 1945.' The back of the plinth carries the inscription 'THE NAMES OF THE FALLEN/ ARE INSCRIBED ON A MARBLE/ TABLET IN THE PARISH CHURCH.'
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, 6 December 2016.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 06/07/2015 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/21572
War Memorials Online, accessed 06/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/102505
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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