Chilthorne Domer War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1432826
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Chilthorne Domer War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1432826
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Chilthorne Domer War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Main Street, Chilthorne Domer, South Somerset, Somerset
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:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chilthorne Domer
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5249019389
Summary
First World War memorial, erected circa 1920, with later additions for the Second World War and the Bosnian War.
Reasons for Designation
Chilthorne Domer War Memorial 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 accomplished and well-realised design with good attention to its decorative detail;
* Degree of survival: the memorial survives intact in its original location;
* Group value: it has group value with the Grade II* St Mary’s Church.
History
The great age of memorial building was in the aftermath of the First World War with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. It is not known when Chilthorne Domer War Memorial was erected and commemorated, but it was likely to be during the 1920s. Additional inscriptions were added following the Second World War and the Bosnian War.
Details
MATERIALS: carved from stone, with inscriptions in black metal lettering.
DESCRIPTION: the war memorial is located to the south of St Mary’s Church (Grade II*), and comprises a Celtic cross on a square column and base, standing on a square, tapered pedestal. The inscription on the south face of the pedestal records the names of the seven men who died in the First World War, and reads:
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN / PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / (NAMES) / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND / COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR. / 1914 – 1918.
The inscription on the east face commemorates three men who lost their lives in the Second World War, and reads:
SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 – 1945, / IN MEMORY OF / (NAMES)
The inscription on the west face of the pedestal commemorates Lieutenant R W Madden of the Light Dragoons who died during the Bosnian War in 1995. The inscription reads:
KILLED IN THE CAUSE / OF PEACE
Above the inscription on the west and east face is a Latin cross, and at the end of each of the three inscriptions is the quotation “THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE” from Ecclesiasticus 44:14.
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, 15 December 2016.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 20/01/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1412
War Memorials Online, accessed 15/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/185502
Other
War Memorial, Main Street, Chilthorne Domer - Somerset Historic Environment Record 17866
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
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