Haslingfield War Memorial
All Saints Church, Church Street, Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, CB23 1JF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1430843
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Haslingfield War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- All Saints Church, Church Street, Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, CB23 1JF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1430843
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Haslingfield War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- All Saints Church, Church Street, Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, CB23 1JF
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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:
- All Saints Church, Church Street, Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, CB23 1JF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Haslingfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL4038452158
Summary
First World War memorial, 1920, with later additions.
Reasons for Designation
Haslingfield War Memorial, in the churchyard of the church of All Saints, 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 and C21;
* Architectural interest: a modest yet well executed and dignified memorial;
* Group value: it stands alongside the Grade I-listed church of All Saints.
History
Haslingfield War Memorial was unveiled on 1 February 1920 by the vicar’s wife, in commemoration of 18 local servicemen who died fighting during the First World War. It was sculpted by Mr W Whitehead of Royston and was a replica of St Martin’s cross on Iona. Following the Second World War, inscriptions were added to commemorate those who fell in that conflict. The name of a soldier who died in 2003 in Iraq has also been added.
Details
The war memorial stands in the churchyard, to the north of the Grade I-listed Church of All Saints. The memorial, overall 3.5m tall, comprises an austere wheel head cross with round bosses at the centre and on the ends of the cross arms. This rises from a square-sectioned shaft standing on a tapered plinth, itself set on a two-stepped square base.
The dedicatory inscription is inscribed at the foot of the shaft and the names are inscribed on the sides of the plinth. The inscriptions on the south face read SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY/ OF THE/ HASLINGFIELD/ MEN WHO FELL IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1919/ (18 NAMES)/ ‘THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.’
On the south face of the upper step of the base an inscription reads GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN/ LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. Below, on the lower step: THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS/ OF HASLINGFIELD.
On the west face: 1939 - 1945/ (9 NAMES)/ THEY ARE IN PEACE. On the east face: IRAQ 2003 (1 NAME)/ “LAY ME WHERE YOU WILL BUT/ REMEMBER ME BEFORE THE ALTAR OF GOD”.
The memorial is surrounded by a narrow gravel path, enclosed by a chain suspended from four low concrete posts.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 13/07/2015 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/3579
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/232986
Other
"Village War Memorial", Cambridge Daily News, 4 February 1920, p3.
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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