Litchborough War Memorial

The Village Green, Litchborough, Northamptonshire, NN12 8JG

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Overview

First World War memorial. Erected c 1920. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1433211
Date first listed:: 15-Apr-2016
List Entry Name:: Litchborough War Memorial
Statutory Address:: The Village Green, Litchborough, Northamptonshire, NN12 8JG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1433211
Date first listed:: 15-Apr-2016
List Entry Name:: Litchborough War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: The Village Green, Litchborough, Northamptonshire, NN12 8JG

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:: The Village Green, Litchborough, Northamptonshire, NN12 8JG

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Litchborough
National Grid Reference:: SP6322654265

Summary

First World War memorial. Erected c 1920.

Reasons for Designation

Litchborough War Memorial, on the village green west of the parish church, 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 First World War; * Design: an elegant limestone cross by the well-regarded Northamptonshire architect J A Gotch; * Group value: with the Grade II*-listed church of St Martin and several listed buildings around the green.

History

The memorial to the men of Litchborough who fell in the First World War was erected c 1920. It was designed by J A Gotch (1852-1942) of Kettering. In 2014, conservation work was undertaken, with further general work to the memorial and its surroundings in 2015.

Details

DESCRIPTION: the war memorial stands on a small village green west of the church of St Martin (Grade II*). Of sandstone, it is a c 7m tall cross with a simple Latin cross-head on a tapering, square-sectioned, shaft set on a square plinth with redder sandstone panels which carry the inscriptions. In raised lettering the principal inscription reads TO KEEP IN MIND/ THOSE WHO FROM THIS PLACE/ GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR/ COUNTRY AND FOR THE RIGHT/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919. The names of those who died are recorded on two sides of the plinth. The plinth stands on a four-stage octagonal base.

The memorial is approached by a modern sandstone path and is surrounded by a post and chain link fence.

Persuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the modern sandstone path and chain link fence to the memorial are not of special architectural or historic interest.

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 Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/154698
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/15078
Other
Northampton Mercury, 23 July 1920

Legal

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