Stotfold War Memorial
The Cemetery, Mill Lane, Stotfold, SG5 4NU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431774
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Stotfold War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- The Cemetery, Mill Lane, Stotfold, SG5 4NU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431774
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Stotfold War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Cemetery, Mill Lane, Stotfold, SG5 4NU
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:
- The Cemetery, Mill Lane, Stotfold, SG5 4NU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stotfold
- National Grid Reference:
- TL2238637036
Summary
First World War memorial, 1920, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Stotfold War Memorial, situated in the grounds of Stotfold Cemetery, 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: an elegant, well-proportioned Classical obelisk.
History
Stotfold War Memorial, erected in the cemetery on Mill Lane, was unveiled and dedicated on 18 July 1920, in commemoration of 64 local servicemen who died during the First World War. Following the end of the Second World War an inscription was added to the plinth commemorating those who died in that conflict. Conservation and repair work was carried out in 2014, funded by War Memorials Trust. One name was added to the memorial in October 2015.
Details
The memorial stands just inside the entrance to the cemetery on Mill Lane, to the south-west of the mortuary chapel. Built of a dark polished granite, it comprises a tall, square, obelisk rising from a square plinth with a narrow cornice. The plinth stands on a two-stage, square, base.
The principal dedicatory inscription on the front face of the plinth reads ERECTED BY THE/ PARISHIONERS TO THE GLORY/ OF GOD AND THE GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF THOSE STOTFOLD/ SOLDIERS AND SAILORS/ WHOSE NAMES ARE INSCRIBED/ ON THIS MONUMENT AND WHO/ IN RESPONSE TO THEIR/ COUNTRY’S CALL, GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918./ AND/ 1939 – 1945. An inscription on the front face of the upper stage of the base reads “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN/ THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS.”
The names of those who fell in the First World War are recorded on the other faces of the plinth and on the upper stage of the base. In addition the lower stage of the base reads 1939 – 1945, with the names of those 13 who died in the Second World War recorded below. The inscriptions are made with gilded metal lettering attached to the stone surfaces.
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, 16 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 15/05/2015 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1793
War Memorials Trust, Grants Showcase - Stotfold, accessed 20/11/2015 from http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=1195
Roll of Honour, Bedfordshire, Stotfold, accessed 20/11/2015 from http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Bedfordshire/StotfoldRollofHonour.html
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/168374
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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