Billericay War Memorial
High Street, Billericay
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431204
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Billericay War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- High Street, Billericay
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431204
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Billericay War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- High Street, Billericay
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
- Statutory Address:
- High Street, Billericay
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Basildon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Billericay
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ6748494691
Details
BASILDON,
HIGH STREET,
Billericay War Memorial
GV II
War Memorial. 1921 WWI memorial with 1957 addition of WWII memorial. WWI memorial comprises a Portland stone rectangular plan shaft with entasis. To north face at bottom a panel reads 'To the glory of God and sacred to the memory of the men from this district who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-18', below a carved wreath. Shaft is capped with a stone Patee cross within a circle. This all rests on a tapered concrete plinth of square plan, each side carrying the names of the 62 WWI dead. WWII memorial is separate and to the south. This comprises a series of low walls of red brick in English bond under stone coping. The taller wall to the back has a recessed stone panel carrying the names of the 54 WWII dead. To the front of this to both sides are U-shaped walls facing inwards, altogether the ensemble appears to embrace the earlier memorial.
HISTORY: Unveiled 16 October 1921 by Major General Sir William Thwaites K.C.M.G., C.B. with a Guard of Honour of 40 ex-servicemen under R.S.M. J.W. Wheatley, and dedicated by Rev. SL. Brown, Rural Dean. The additional memorial to the WWII dead was added in 1957, unveiled by Lt.-Col. A.C. Newman. V.C., O.B.E., T.D., D.L.
Group Value with Church of St. Mary Magdalen (q.v.) and the listed buildings to High Street and Chapel Street.
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, 12 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 12 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/45526
War Memorials Online, accessed 12 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/79359
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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