Cogenhoe War Memorial
Mill Lane, Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire, NN7 1LS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1432915
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Cogenhoe War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Mill Lane, Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire, NN7 1LS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1432915
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Cogenhoe War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Mill Lane, Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire, NN7 1LS
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:
- Mill Lane, Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire, NN7 1LS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cogenhoe and Whiston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP8307860993
Summary
First World War memorial with later additions for the Second World War, erected in 1921; moved to the present site in 1973.
Reasons for Designation
Cogenhoe War Memorial, at St Peter’s Institute on Mill Lane, 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: a well-executed memorial in the Classical style;
* Group value: with listed buildings including 49 Church Street and Honeysuckle Cottage (both Grade II).
History
Cogenhoe War Memorial was unveiled on 22 May 1921 by Lt-Col John Brown DSO, commemorating 15 local servicemen who died in the First World War. It stood against the boundary wall demarcating the site of the village school, at the junction of Brafield Road and Station Road. The dedication service was led by Reverend R A Selby of Earls Barton. The memorial was made by Messrs J G Pullen and Sons of Northampton (responsible for a number of war memorials in the county).
In 1973 the memorial was re-located to its present site to make way for road alterations. After the Second World War an inscription was added to commemorate those who fell in that conflict. The memorial underwent conservation work in 2014, funded by War Memorials Trust.
Details
The war memorial takes the form of a large freestone memorial tablet, set on the side wall of the former stable block of The Rectory (now St Peter’s Institute, not included in this listing) on Mill Lane overlooking a small village green. Some 4m tall, the Classical-style tablet incorporates pilaster buttresses to either side and has a convex pediment containing a plain Latin cross in relief.
To the centre is a plaque inscribed HONOUR TO HEROES/ IN EVER GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF/ THE FOLLOWING MEN/ CONNECTED WITH THIS VILLAGE WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (15 NAMES). Beneath is inscribed TRUE LOVE BY LIFE TRUE LOVE BY DEATH IS TRIED/ LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND WE FOR ENGLAND DIED. Beneath are the names of four men who were lost in the Second World War. Underneath the plaque is a stone shelf for wreaths, on which stand two urns.
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, 17 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Trust, Grants Showcase (Cogenhoe), accessed 05/05/2015 from http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=1075
Milton Keynes Discovery Centre, Kitchener Collection, accessed 21/01/2016 from http://www.mkcdc.org.uk/kitchener/object-details-page/279854/
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/37401
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/87034
Other
“Cogenhoe War Memorial”, Northampton Mercury, 27 May 1921, p9
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.
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