Glazeley War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431810
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Glazeley War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431810
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Glazeley War Memorial
- Location Description:
- North-East of St Bartholomew's Church, Glazeley, 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:
- Glazeley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO7032488306
Summary
A churchyard war memorial in the churchyard of St Bartholomew, Glazeley. C. 1920.
Reasons for Designation
Glazeley 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 square pillar with ball finial;
* Group value: with the church of St Bartholomew (listed Grade II).
History
A churchyard memorial cross which appears to date from c. 1920
Details
A churchyard war memorial in the churchyard of St Bartholomew, Glazeley. C. 1920.
MATERIALS and PLAN: ashlar stone, a square, tapered pier rising from an octagonal plinth with stepped platform and ball finial.
DETAILS: the ball finial is set above a cube, on top of the square pier. The cube has egg and dart moulding to its top and a roll moulding to its bottom. Each face has a raised border, and raised lettering to each of the four sides, spelling ‘CHEER./FUL-/NESS’; ‘COUR./AGE’; ENDUR./ANCE’ and ‘PROW./ESS’. The plinth has an overhanging, moulded lip to its top and a projecting band to the bottom. There are rectangular panels to each side with raised lettering. That to the north western (road) side reads ‘ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS / AS A MEMORIAL / OF THE GREAT WAR / AND TO PERPETUATE THE NAMES / OF THE GALLANT MEN FROM / THE GLAZELEY DISTRICT / WHO JOINED HIS MAJESTY’S FORCES / IN DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY / 1914-1919’. The other three sides bear the names of the fallen. Below is an octagonal platform with three steps.
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, 23 November 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 June 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/72658
War Memorials Online, accessed 23 November 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/253641
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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