Appleton le Moors War Memorial
Christ Church, Headlands Road, Appleton le Moors, North Yorkshire, YO62
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1430659
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Appleton le Moors War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Christ Church, Headlands Road, Appleton le Moors, North Yorkshire, YO62
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1430659
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Appleton le Moors War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Christ Church, Headlands Road, Appleton le Moors, North Yorkshire, YO62
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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:
- Christ Church, Headlands Road, Appleton le Moors, North Yorkshire, YO62
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Appleton-le-Moors
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE7346588072
Summary
First World War memorial.
Reasons for Designation
Appleton le Moor War Memorial, a well-head incorporating a memorial tablet set in to the wall of Christ Church churchyard, is listed at Grade II for the following 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: the memorial tablet is incorporated within a pleasingly executed well-head in the medieval style, contemporary with church and vicarage of 1865, originally protecting a village well;
* Group value: with the Grade I-listed Christ Church.
History
Memorial tablet. It lies at the north, uphill, end of the village, within the arched well-head of c1865 set in the churchyard wall.
Details
The war memorial takes the form of a tablet within an arched well-head, set in the churchyard wall of Christ Church, Appleton le Moor’s parish church (Grade I). The well-head, apparently constructed c 1865 at the same time as the church and vicarage, stands c 4m tall, and is of sandstone ashlar. It has a gabled parapet, with an arched opening in the Transitional style. Originally it gave protection to a well, replaced with a pump before 1891. After the First World War a war memorial tablet or plaque giving the names of the Fallen was set within the arch. Later, probably in the 1960s, the originally open rear of the arch was walled across and a replacement memorial plaque was set in it inscribed IN HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE FOLLOWING WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918 (5 names). Perhaps at the same time the front of the arch was closed with a fence-like grill.
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, 23 November 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 15 October 2015 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/29862
War Memorials Online, accessed 23 November 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/254477
Other
Appleton le Moors History Group, Appleton le Moors and the Great War (2014)
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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