Irthlingborough War Memorial
Finedon Road, Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 5TY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1429178
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Irthlingborough War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Finedon Road, Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 5TY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1429178
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Irthlingborough War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Finedon Road, Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 5TY
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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:
- Finedon Road, Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 5TY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Irthlingborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SP9420571069
Summary
First World War memorial, 1921, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Irthlingborough War Memorial, on Finedon 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: a sandstone column of some elaboration in the Classical style.
History
The memorial, commissioned by a War Memorial Committee to commemorate the 151 local servicemen who died fighting during the First World War, was unveiled on 13 November 1921. Sir W Ryland Adkins KC MP delivered an oration at the ceremony. A location at the end of Manton Road had been favoured in a referendum of townspeople, but the memorial was built on Finedon Road. The names of those who died serving in the Second World War were added at a later date.
Details
The war memorial stands in a small enclosure on the south-west side of Finedon Road, some way out of central Irthlingborough. Overall the memorial is c8m tall. In limestone, it takes the form of a fluted, circular, column topped with a ball finial, from which rises an ornate metal cross. The finial stands on an urn-shaped pedestal, each side of which is decorated with the flower symbols of the United Kingdom, carved in low relief and gilded.
The column rises from a three-stage, stepped, base with one square section above two octagonal ones. A slate plaque fixed to the front face of the uppermost stage carries the inscription TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN/ AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE/ OF THE MEN OF IRTHLINGBOROUGH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918. On the rear face of this stage a slate plaque is inscribed LEST WE FORGET. On the two side faces similar plaques record the names of those who fell 1939-1945. Running around the second tier of the base are slate plaques with the names of those who died in the First World War.
The memorial stands within a small flagged enclosure defined to the front by concrete posts and iron railings. Hedges enclose the side and rear. A red brick structure, which is not of special interest, provides seating in the centre of the front of the enclosure.
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
Irthlingborough Town Council Website, accessed 07/07/2015 from http://www.irthlingborough-tc.gov.uk/memorials.html
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14912
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/203559
Other
“Country Notes”, Northampton Mercury, 30 July 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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