Highley War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431400
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Highley War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431400
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Highley War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Churchyard of St Mary, Highley, Shropshire
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Highley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO7415283255
Summary
A churchyard, memorial cross unveiled in 1921.
Reasons for Designation
Highley War Memorial, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impacts of world events on this community, and the sacrifices it made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Architectural interest: as an accomplished and well-realised war memorial which takes the simple form of a cross;
* Group value: with the church of St Mary (listed Grade II*).
History
The monument cost £230 and was unveiled by Major General Sir Archibald Montgomery of the Shropshire Light Infantry on 12 July 1921. The Revd. Shields performed the dedication.
Details
A churchyard, memorial cross unveiled in 1921.
MATERIALS : red sandstone with limestone plaques.
DESCRIPTION: a cross of loosely Celtic design with tapered shaft which rises from a rusticated cairn and stands on a stepped platform. The monument stands to the south-west of the parish church of St Mary, Highley. The cross has a wheel head. The west side has a raised border to the cross head and shaft and the central panel has a sword carved in relief with the words ‘PRO / PATRIA’ also carved in relief. The base is rusticated and has a central plaque with an inscription which reads ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND / IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE / FOLLOWING WHO SACRIFICED / THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT / EUROPEAN WAR 1914-1918’. Names are inscribed below and on a plaque on the east side. The eastern face has at the end of the list of the fallen the words ‘THINK ONLY THIS OF US / THAT THERE’S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN LAND / THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND’. On the north side is a plaque which reads ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN / MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS / PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN / THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM / DURING THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945’.
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, 19 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/13849
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/231673
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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