All Stretton War Memorial

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A war memorial dedicated and unveiled in March 1920. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1427795
Date first listed:: 13-Jul-2015
List Entry Name:: All Stretton War Memorial

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1427795
Date first listed:: 13-Jul-2015
List Entry Name:: All Stretton War Memorial
Location Description:: Shrewsbury Road (B5477), All Stretton, Shropshire, SY6 6JX

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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Location

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Church Stretton
National Grid Reference:: SO4608195649

Summary

A war memorial dedicated and unveiled in March 1920.

Reasons for Designation

All Stretton War Memorial, Shropshire, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impacts of world events on this community, and the sacrifices it made in the conflicts of the C20. * Architectural interest: as an attractive and well-realised war memorial.

History

The monument was unveiled by Mrs J McLintock and dedicated by Revd. Selby Lenrey on 27 March 1920. It cost £550. It was cleaned in 1982 and the small plaque commemorating the fallen from the Second World War was added in 1983. The slate plaques, covering the worn inscriptions, were added in 1995.

Details

A war memorial dedicated and unveiled in March 1920.

MATERIAL and PLAN: the memorial is of limestone with slate plaques attached to all sides. It is placed on a raised bank to the west side of the B5477, Shrewsbury Road. It takes the form of an obelisk on a pedestal with stepped, square plinth.

The obelisk is of ashlar, and rises from the plinth, which has a cap with a deep cavetto moulding to its top, supporting miniature pediments to each face. The plinth has green slate plaques to the north, east and south fronts. The eastern one bears the inscription ‘To the Glory of God / and in the memory of those / from this parish who fell / in the Great War 1914 – 1918 / for Truth Righteousness and Justice’. Names of the fallen are inscribed below and on the panels on the flanks. A small plaque was placed on the east face of the obelisk, which records the names of those who died in the Second World War. A larger plaque, recording the same names is set in the upper step of the plinth.

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, 19 January 2017.

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/110030
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/13779

Legal

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