Hopton Green War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1428086
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Hopton Green War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1428086
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Hopton Green War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Hopton Road, Cam, Gloucestershire, GL11 5PB
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.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cam
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7552199831
Summary
A war memorial cross of 1921 by P.B. Tubbs.
Reasons for Designation
The war memorial at Hopton Green, Cam, Gloucestershire 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 has made in the conflicts of the C20 and C21;
* Architectural interest: an assured cross design, well-crafted in dressed stone;
* Intactness: the structure is relatively unaltered.
History
The war memorial to the men of Cam was erected in 1921. The names of the fallen in the Second World War were added later. The memorial was restored in 1996. An additional name was added in 2011, relating to the conflict in Afghanistan.
Details
A war memorial cross of 1921 date, constructed to the design of P.B. Tubbs.
MATERIALS: constructed of stone, probably above a concrete raft.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial is a freestanding cross with a fluted column and lantern finial with foliate mouldings. It stands on an octagonal, capped plinth with dedication and names, above an octagonal two-stepped base, and on a large six-stepped platform* built into a steep embankment* on the village green. The steps are to the east, south and west, and to the north the memorial is set close to road level, with two shallow steps* down from the curb. There are further steps*, dry-stone garden walling* and a steel hand rail*, all of later date, to the southern approach. Only cross and its base are of special interest.
The south face of the plinth is inscribed: IN EVERY GRATEFUL/ REMEMBRANCE/ OF THE MEN OF/ CAM WHO FELL/ IN THE WAR/ 1914-1918. The other faces are inscribed with the names of the fallen (42 NAMES). The south faces of the upper step of the plinth are inscribed: THEY WERE A WALL BOTH BY NIGHT AND BY DAY.
The faces of the square bottom of the shaft, below broach stops, are inscribed: 1939-1945/ WAR (16 NAMES). The north-west face of the upper plinth face is inscribed: REFURBISHED BY/ CAM PARISH AND STROUD/ DISTRICT COUNCILS/ NOVEMBER 1996. A bronze plaque to Martin Lamb, who fell in Afghanistan in 2011, is attached to the face to the north.
* Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that these aforementioned features are not of special architectural or historic interest.
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, 10 January 2017.
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, Brooks, A, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds, (1999), 210
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 15/06/2015 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/29948
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/200999
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
Map
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