Middle Chinnock War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1430152
- Date first listed:
- 26-Oct-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Chinnock War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1430152
- Date first listed:
- 26-Oct-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Chinnock War Memorial
- Location Description:
- located to the south-east of the churchyard of St Margaret's Church, Middle Chinnock, South Somerset, Somerset (NGR ST4723413109)
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West and Middle Chinnock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4723413109
Summary
First World war memorial, probably erected by 1921, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Middle Chinnock War Memorial is listed 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;
* Architectural interest: an accomplished and well-realised design which good attention to its decorative detail;
* Group value: it has group value with the church of St Margaret (Grade II*).
History
The great age of memorial building was in the aftermath of the First World War with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. It is not known when Middle Chinnock War Memorial was erected and commemorated, but it was likely to be soon after the end of the First World War. This assumption is based on the absence of the name Archibald Langdon from the memorial. Langdon, a rifleman of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, died on the 28 February 1921 and is separately commemorated by a Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone to the immediate west of the war memorial.
Details
War memorial, probably erected by 1921.
MATERIALS: carved from Ham stone.
DESCRIPTION: the war memorial is located at the south-east corner of the churchyard of the church of St Margaret. Standing on a square platform, the memorial comprises a square-based tapered pedestal with an octagonal shaft above, surmounted by a wheel cross. The base of the shaft has a square plinth supporting a torus above which is encased at the corners with a beak-style moulding which runs from the base of the shaft to the plinth. The upper section of the shaft has a plain octagonal annulet. The east face of the pedestal is inscribed IN / MEMORY / OF/ ARTHUR / AND / FREDERICK FRY / AND / ERNEST HOCKEY / KILLED IN ACTION / AND ALSO / THOSE OF MIDDLE CHINNOCK / WHO SERVED DURING / THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919. The west face of the pedestal is inscribed ALSO TO / THE MEMORY OF / SIDNEY RALPH / LANGDON / KILLED IN ACTION / SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 – 1943.
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, 15 December 2016.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 19/01/2015 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/24852
War Memorials Online, accessed 15/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/132093
Other
Somerset Historic Environment Record 17774, 'War Memorial, Church of St Margaret, West Chinnock'
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
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