Milton Malsor War Memorial

High Street, Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire, NN7 3AS

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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:: 1433018
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-2016
List Entry Name:: Milton Malsor War Memorial
Statutory Address:: High Street, Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire, NN7 3AS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1433018
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-2016
List Entry Name:: Milton Malsor War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: High Street, Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire, NN7 3AS

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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Location

Statutory Address:: High Street, Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire, NN7 3AS

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Milton Malsor
National Grid Reference:: SP7335355662

Summary

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

Reasons for Designation

Milton Malsor War Memorial, erected in 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 the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the conflicts of the C20; * Design: an elegant limestone cross; * Architect: by the leading Northamptonshire architect J A Gotch.

History

The memorial to the men of Milton Malsor who fell in the First World War was unveiled by General Lord Horne on 17 July 1920. It was designed by the architect J A Gotch (1852-1942) of Kettering.

Details

DESCRIPTION: the war memorial stands on the village green on the south side of High Street. Of Weldon stone, it is a c 4m high cross on a tapering shaft which rises from a relatively small, square, plinth. This is inscribed in raised lettering TO KEEP IN MIND THOSE/ WHO FROM THIS PLACE/ GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914-1919. The names of those who died are recorded on the other three sides of the plinth. A sloping tablet was added to the front of the memorial after the Second World War with the names of those lost in that conflict. A second tablet, to the left side of the memorial, records the village’s Second-War contributions to the Northampton General Hospital memorial.

Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the low post and chain fence which surrounds the memorial is not of special interest and is excluded from the listing.

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, 17 January 2017.

Sources

Websites
Northampton Mercury 23 July 1920, accessed 15 October 2015 from http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000317/19200723/024/0003
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/185537
War Memorials Register, accessed 27 January 2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2068

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.