Uttoxeter War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1430098
- Date first listed:
- 26-Oct-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Uttoxeter War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1430098
- Date first listed:
- 26-Oct-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Uttoxeter War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Market Place, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.
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:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- East Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Uttoxeter
- National Grid Reference:
- SK0931633424
Summary
A First World War memorial of c1928.
Reasons for Designation
Uttoxeter War Memorial is listied at 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: a well-executed monument taking the form of a medieval Eleanor Cross, designed by the firm L.W. Barnard and Partners of Cheltenham.
History
A war memorial of c1928. A bronze plaque commemorating the fallen of the Second World War was added c.1945, with further plaques being added for the Gulf War c.1991 and the Afghanistan War c.2010. The memorial was designed by architects L.W. Barnard & Partners of Cheltenham, and carved by Robert Bridgman & Sons of Lichfield.
Details
A town war memorial of c.1928.
MATERIALS AND PLAN: the memorial is constructed of Hollington stone ashlar and is octagonal in plan.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial sits in the Market Square in Uttoxeter and is in a Perpendicular gothic style, in the form of a medieval Eleanor Cross. The monument is of four main stages, which sit atop a four-stepped base. The principal, upper stages are each supported by eight buttresses, topped by decorative finials with carved crockets. The central stage contains linenfold panelling in the reveals, with carved tracery above. The upper stage also has carved tracery panels which contain bronze grilles. The whole is surmounted by a carved stone cross.
The original bronze plaques commemorating the fallen of the First World War are set into the stone of the second stage, with the inscription, "TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF UTTOXETER/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918". After 1945, further plaques were added commemorating the losses of the Second World War, with the inscription, "TO THE GLORIOUS/ MEMORY OF THE MEN/ OF UTTOXETER WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ THE WORLD WAR/ 1939 - 1945", with a Greek Cross below.
After the Gulf War a further plaque was added, inscribed, "IN HONOUR/ AND MEMORY OF/ SERGEANT/ MICHAEL DOWLING M.M./ KILLED/ WHILST ON ACTIVE SERVICE/ IN THE GULF WAR/ 26TH FEBRUARY/ 1991'. An additional plaque was added to commemorate the conflict in Afghanistan, inscribed, "IN MEMORY/ LCpL BARRY BUXTON/ 21 ENGINEER REGIMENT/ 3 MAY 2010/ AFGHANISTAN".
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES
The stepped base is today concealed by modern timber boarding to create planters.The monument is also now enclosed within a series of modern metal bollards.
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, 19 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
Staffordshire Past Track, accessed 10th September 2015 from http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/Search.aspx?PageIndex=1&SortOrder=2&Keyword=uttoxeter%20war%20memorial
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/13422
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/166405
Other
Lichfield Mercury, Friday 16th November 1928
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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