Shirehampton War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1432499
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Shirehampton War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1432499
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Shirehampton War Memorial
- Location Description:
- On the corner of Shirehampton Road and Penpole Lane, Shirehampton, Bristol, BS110EA
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:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5383677075
Summary
A war memorial of 1921 designed by Ernest Newton FRIBA.
Reasons for Designation
The war memorial at Shirehampton, Bristol 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 has made during the First World War;
* Architectural interest: a well-crafted cross design in dressed stone to the design of Ernest Newton;
* Intactness: the structure is largely unaltered;
* Group value: it provides an additional feature of note within the Kingsweston Estate (Registered at Grade II) dating from the ownership of the philanthropist Philip Napier Miles.
History
The war memorial to the men of Shirehampton Parish who died in the First World War was designed by Ernest Newton CBE RA FRIBA and constructed on land given to the parish by Philip Napier Miles of Kings Weston House. The house served as a military hospital during the Frist World War. The memorial was unveiled by Brigadier-General C. G. Bruce CMG DSO on 4 September 1921 and dedicated by the Archdeacon of Bristol.
A stone planter on the front bottom step is inscribed: TO THE MEN WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ FROM THE WOMENS SECTION/ SHIREHAMPTON AND DISTRICT/ BRITISH LEGION. The inscribed planter on the front step of the monument probably dates from 1957 when the Women’s Section of the British Legion agreed to maintain the surrounding memorial garden.
Subsequently, the bronze cross has been replaced with a plain stone cross.
Details
A war memorial cross of 1921 by Ernest Newton CBE RA FRIBA.
MATERIALS: constructed of York stone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial is a freestanding cross on a square three-stepped base. The top two steps are moulded. The cross has a tapering octagonal shaft on a square base and moulded plinth. The top of the shaft has decorative banding and mouldings and a stone wheel cross atop an orb (the cross and orb are a later replacement). The square base is inscribed: TO THE/ HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF SHIREHAMPTON/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ (Names).
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, 15 December 2016.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 15/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/7357
War Memorials Online, accessed 15/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/115945
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(s) is/are 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) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
Map
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