Houghton Conquest War Memorial
All Saints Churchyard, The Grove, Houghton Conquest, Bedford
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431372
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Houghton Conquest War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- All Saints Churchyard, The Grove, Houghton Conquest, Bedford
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431372
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Houghton Conquest War Memorial
- Location Description:
- The memorial is located in the churchyard of the Church of All Saints, The Grove, Houghton Conquest, close to the main entrance gate.
- Statutory Address 1:
- All Saints Churchyard, The Grove, Houghton Conquest, Bedford
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:
- All Saints Churchyard, The Grove, Houghton Conquest, Bedford
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Houghton Conquest
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0440041441
Summary
First World War memorial with later additions for the Second World War and the Korean War.
Reasons for Designation
Houghton Conquest War Memorial, located 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.
* Design: as a modest, but carefully-executed design.
* Group value: it stands in close proximity to the Church of All Saints which is listed at Grade I.
History
The war memorial was erected after the First World War and is inscribed with the names of the sixteen fallen from that conflict. Nine names were added after the Second World War and one after the Korean War. A small statue originally designed for a niche in the memorial was lost, and a replacement was installed in 2000.
Details
The war memorial takes the form of a broken circular column, raised on a simple base and rectangular plinth, all executed in granite. The plinth rises from a single-step base, set within a small kerbed square with a gravel covering. At the base of the column is a small niche intended to house a bronze statue of St George. The original has been lost, but a replacement created by the sculptor Philip Jackson CVO DL MA FRBS was installed in 2000. The names of the fallen, and the regiments to which they belonged are inscribed in black lettering around the sides of the plinth. The name of a casualty of the Korean War is inscribed on the plinth step.
The eastern face of the plinth carries an inscription, also in black lettering, which reads 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVER'. Sixteen names are recorded of those who fell in the First World War, nine from the second and one from the Korean War.
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, 16 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1732
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/120803
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map: a broken circular column, raised on a simple base and rectangular plinth, all executed in granite; the plinth rises from a single-step base, set within a small kerbed square with a gravel covering) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
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