Fulbrook War Memorial
Junction of the A361 and Meadow Lane, Fulbrook, Oxfordshire, OX18 4BW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1430542
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Fulbrook War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Junction of the A361 and Meadow Lane, Fulbrook, Oxfordshire, OX18 4BW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1430542
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Fulbrook War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Junction of the A361 and Meadow Lane, Fulbrook, Oxfordshire, OX18 4BW
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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 the A361 and Meadow Lane, Fulbrook, Oxfordshire, OX18 4BW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fulbrook
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2587712933
Summary
First World War memorial, 1922, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Fulbrook War Memorial, situated at the junction of Meadow Lane and The Rickyard (A361), 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;
* Group value: with the Grade II-listed Pytts Barn.
History
Fulbrook War Memorial was erected in 1922, funded by public subscription, to commemorate the servicemen from the village who died fighting during the First World War. An inscription was added commemorating those who fell in the Second World War, following the end of that conflict. Originally sited on a grass mound, a sunken hard-standing perimeter was created in 1955. Conservation and repair work was carried out in 2006, funded by War Memorials Trust, including renovations to stonework and the installation of a drain.
Details
The memorial, of Taynton limestone, consists of a small, blind, wheel-head cross rising from a lantern set on a tall, tapering, square shaft. That stands on a four-stage plinth and two-stepped base.
An inscription on the front face of the plinth reads THESE/ ARE THE MEN/ FROM/ FULBROOK/ WHO DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE/ 1914 – 1918/ FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, with the names of those who fell in the First World War carved into the two flanking faces. In addition, an inscription on the rear of the plinth reads 1939 – 1945, with the names of those who fell in the Second World War listed below, followed by the inscription THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD. All of the inscriptions are incised.
The memorial stands in a square sunken enclosure with one step on the northern side. Originally this was defined by a low perimeter wall of limestone with rough-hewn coping stones. It is now surrounded by dark stone paving and a low wall with flat limestone coping bearing 13 metal posts carrying a chain. A paved area surrounds the whole, with a wooden bench to the south, metal bollards at three corners and a tree at the fourth (south-east) corner. The modern posts and chain, bench and bollards are not of special interest.
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, 10 November 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Trust, Grants Showcase - Fulbrook, Oxfordshire, accessed 22/05/2015 from http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=44
War Memorials Online, accessed 11 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/135059
War Memorials Register, accessed 10 November 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/72663
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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