Finedon War Memorial
Junction of Wellingborough Road and Laws Lane, Finedon, Northamptonshire, NN9 5LQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1429162
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Finedon War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Junction of Wellingborough Road and Laws Lane, Finedon, Northamptonshire, NN9 5LQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1429162
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Finedon War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Junction of Wellingborough Road and Laws Lane, Finedon, Northamptonshire, NN9 5LQ
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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:
- Junction of Wellingborough Road and Laws Lane, Finedon, Northamptonshire, NN9 5LQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Finedon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP9171771851
Summary
First World War memorial, 1920, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Finedon War Memorial, on Wellingborough Road, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this local community, and the sacrifice it has made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Design: an unusual square monolith in the Classical style;
* Architect: by the leading Northamptonshire architect JA Gotch.
History
Finedon War Memorial, designed by the Northamptonshire architect JA Gotch (1852-1942) for the Finedon War Memorial Committee, was dedicated at an ecumenical service on 7 November 1920 with Brigadier General AFH Ferguson in attendance. It replaced a temporary memorial, in the form of an obelisk on a square base. The memorial was funded by public subscription and cost c£400. Gotch was responsible for a number of war memorials in the region, such as those at Kettering, Burton Latimer and Titchmarsh (all Grade II-listed).
Details
The war memorial stands on Wellingborough Road, a main road through Finedon. Overall c5m tall and made of Weldon stone, it is a square monolith with an out-sailing cornice and ogee capstone. The capstone is surmounted by a small equal armed cross that is decorated with roses carved in low relief at the centre and on the arm terminals. Small pinnacles stand on each corner of the cornice.
At the top of the memorial each face carries a single word: COURAGE; ENDURANCE; PROWESS; CHEERFULNESS. Below each word is carved two square blind panels, and below these a large slate plaque recording the commemorated names is let into each face. Below the plaque on the front face, an inscription on a slate tablet carries the words TO KEEP IN MIND THE/ GREAT WAR & THOSE/ FROM THIS PLACE WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES/ 1914 – 1919/ AND/ 1939 – 1945. "The slate plaques were added c1990, replacing the original, weathered, rolls of honour."
Supporting scroll buttresses are angled at each corner of the monolith’s base. It is raised on two square steps and surrounded by a small paved area. The memorial stands in a long, thin, memorial garden alongside the road, surrounded by iron railings.
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/10/2015
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, 17 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14957
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/185139
Other
“Finedon’s War Memorial”, Northampton Mercury, 12 November 1920, p4
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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