Quatt War Memorial Cross
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431507
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Quatt War Memorial Cross
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431507
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Quatt War Memorial Cross
- Location Description:
- Church of St Andrew, Quatt Malvern, 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:
- Quatt Malvern
- National Grid Reference:
- SO7561288220
Summary
A churchyard war memorial cross of c. 1920.
Reasons for Designation
Quatt 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 form of a cross;
* Group value: with the church of St Andrew (listed Grade II*).
History
The churchyard monument appears to have been constructed c. 1920 with an additional inscription after 1945.
Details
A churchyard war memorial cross of c. 1920.
MATERIALS & PLAN: red sandstone. A cross with tapered shaft and a plinth and stepped platform, set to the north of the Church of St Andrew, Quatt.
DETAILS: the arms of the cross have square ends and chamfered angles. The top of the cross has a brattished outline. The shaft has a square section and is tapered. The plinth has a square base and dies back via broaches to its upper, octagonal body. The north face is inscribed: ‘TO THE / GLORY / OF / GOD / A THANK OFFERING FOR / VICTORY & FOR THOSE / SPARED A MEMORIAL OF / THE PART TAKEN BY THE / EMPIRE IN THE GREAT WAR’. At the upper angles on the north side are inscribed ‘1914’ and ‘1918’ and on the south side ‘1939’and ‘1945’. Individual names of the fallen are not recorded.
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/38019
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/232982
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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