Allestree War Memorial

St Edmunds Churchyard, St Edmunds Close, Allestree, Derby, DE22 2DZ

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Overview

First World War Memorial, 1920, with later additions for the Second World War. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1432399
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-2016
List Entry Name:: Allestree War Memorial
Statutory Address:: St Edmunds Churchyard, St Edmunds Close, Allestree, Derby, DE22 2DZ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1432399
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-2016
List Entry Name:: Allestree War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: St Edmunds Churchyard, St Edmunds Close, Allestree, Derby, DE22 2DZ

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: St Edmunds Churchyard, St Edmunds Close, Allestree, Derby, DE22 2DZ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Derby (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK3477239715

Summary

First World War Memorial, 1920, with later additions for the Second World War.

Reasons for Designation

Allestree War Memorial, unveiled in December 1920, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this community, and the sacrifices it has made in the conflicts of the C20; * Design interest: the interlace decoration of the Celtic cross is both attractive and familiar, while the rugged quality of the granite is appropriate to the gravity of its meaning; * Group value: with the church of St Edmund, listed at Grade II*.

History

The war memorial was designed by Messrs J Beresford and Son and unveiled on the 19 December 1920.

Details

The war memorial is sited in the churchyard of St Edmund’s church (Grade II*), Allestree, and is set back slightly beside the path from the lychgate to the church door. It is carved mainly from Aberdeen granite and takes the form of a Celtic cross, with the interlaced decoration on the west face of the cross only. The shaft and battered plinth on which it stands are of rough-hewn granite. The 16 names of those who died in the First World War are inscribed on two panels on the west face of the plinth, and a stone slab at the base of the plinth bears the names of those who died in the Second World War. Inscribed on the base of the cross shaft in black lettering, are the words THE GLORIOUS DEAD, below which, carved in relief, are the dates of the First World War, 1914 and 1919.

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, 26 January 2017.

Sources

Websites
Roll of Honour, Derbyshire, accessed 11th Feb 2016 from http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Derbyshire/Allestree.html
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/192928
War Memorials Register, accessed 11th Feb 2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/18975

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 is 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 cross standing on a squared plinth) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.