Cheddar War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431285
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Cheddar War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431285
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Cheddar War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Station Road, Cheddar, Somerset
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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:
- Cheddar
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4565053228
Summary
A First World War memorial, erected in 1920, altered after the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Cheddar 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: a sombre but elegant memorial, well made and with good metal plaques.
History
The war memorial at the junction of Station Road in Cheddar was constructed in 1920, to commemorate the Fallen of the village. The proposed location, a prominent site forming a triangular plot at the junction of three roads, was surveyed and found to allow adequate passage of traffic on all sides; permission was granted by Axbridge Rural District Council for the erection of the memorial in January 1920. The memorial was unveiled by Lord Bath, amidst great ceremony, on 15 September 1920. After the Second World War, it was decided that the names of the men who had died should be added to the war memorial, but noted that the inscriptions of 1920 were already weathering badly. It was resolved that public subscriptions should be raised to cover the cost of covering the inscriptions with gunmetal plates with the names of the Fallen from both wars cast into them. These were added in 1946.
Details
A First World War memorial, erected in 1920, altered after the Second World.
MATERIALS: stone, with gunmetal plates.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial takes the form of a moulded wheel cross on a tapering hexagonal shaft with a moulded foot, set on a high hexagonal plinth. To each side of the plinth is affixed a gunmetal plate, which bears the names of the Fallen from the First and Second World Wars, together with the inscriptions: IN MEMORY OF / THE BRAVE MEN / OF / CHEDDAR / WHO FELL IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919 / DO THY DUTY / THAT IS BEST. / LEAVE UNTO THY GOD / THE REST. and IN / HONOURED /MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF CHEDDAR / WHO GAVE THEIR / LIVES IN DEFENCE / OF FREEDOM / 1939-1945 / GREATER LOVE / HATH NO MAN / THAN THIS / THAT A MAN / LAY DOWN HIS LIFE / FOR HIS FRIENDS. The whole stands on a three-stepped platform of irregular hexagonal plan, on a small triangular traffic island.
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, 14 December 2016.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 4/11/2015 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1403
War Memorials Online, accessed 14/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/121120
Other
Somerset Historic Environment Record 17655: War memorial, Station Road, Cheddar
Wells Journal, 16 January 1920
Western Daily Press, 17 September 1920
Wells Journal, 7 June 1946
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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