War Memorial, St Stephen's Churchyard
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1428736
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-2016
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial, St Stephen's Churchyard
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1428736
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-2016
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial, St Stephen's Churchyard
- Location Description:
- St Stephen's Churchyard, Station Road, Borrowash
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:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ockbrook and Borrowash
- National Grid Reference:
- SK4169534430
Summary
First World War memorial, erected 1920.
Reasons for Designation
The First World War memorial in St Stephen's churchyard, Borrowash, erected in 1920, is listed 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;
* Design: as a dignified wooden cross memorial with affixed bronze sculpture of the crucified Christ.
History
The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. One such memorial was unveiled in October 1920 in churchyard of St Stephen’s in Borrowash to commemorate the men of the church who fought and died during the conflict. It takes the form of a calvary cross and comprises stonework by Samuel Hodgkinson of Borrowash and a bronze sculpture of the crucified Christ by Alfred Mowbray and Company of Oxford.
Details
First World War memorial, erected 1920, with stonework by Samuel Hodgkinson of Borrowash and a bronze sculpture of the crucified Christ by Alfred Mowbray and Company of Oxford.
MATERIALS: its base and plinth are of sandstone, the cross is of oak and the canopy was re-covered with slate in the early C21.
PLAN: it is octagonal on plan.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial faces north-west and takes the forms of a calvary cross. It comprises a two-step base, a deep plinth and a canopied oak cross supporting a bronze sculpture of the crucified Christ. The north-west face of the plinth is inscribed: ‘IN / GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE HEROIC DEAD / 1914 – 1919’. A second inscription at the base of the plinth reads: ‘GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS’. No names are recorded on the memorial.
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, 25 January 2017.
Sources
Books and journals
Johnson, M, Walking Around Borrowash, (1995), 22
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 10 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/57138
War Memorials Online, accessed 7 July 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/231660
Other
Derby Mercury, 8 October 1920, p11
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 - a wooden cross on a two-step stone base and a deep plinth) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
Map
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