Swavesey War Memorial
St Andrew's churchyard, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1433338
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Swavesey War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- St Andrew's churchyard, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1433338
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Swavesey War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- St Andrew's churchyard, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
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:
- St Andrew's churchyard, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swavesey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3627669319
Summary
First World War memorial, erected c 1920, with additions to commemorate those who fell in the Second World War and Falklands Conflict.
Reasons for Designation
First World War memorial, erected c 1920, with additions to commemorate those who fell in the Second World War and Falklands Conflict, 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 made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Design interest: as an accomplished and well-realised war memorial which takes the form of a Latin cross;
* Group value: with the church of St Andrew (Grade I).
History
The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. One such memorial was erected in Swavesey to honour the 26 men of the parish who died during the conflict. Further names were added to commemorate those who fell in the Second World War and the Falklands Conflict. In 2008 the memorial was repaired after being damaged by falling branches from cedar trees in the churchyard.
Details
First World War memorial, erected c 1920, with additions to commemorate those who fell in the Second World War and Falklands Conflict.
MATERIALS: granite.
PLAN: square on plan:
DESCRIPTION: the war memorial stands at the south-west entrance of the churchyard of the parish church of St Andrew (Grade I). It takes the form of a Latin cross and comprises a single-step base, a square plinth and a tall shaft that rises in rectangular section to a plain cross head. Inscribed on the plinth's north-east face is the First World War dedication which reads 'IN LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE FOLLOWING MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR / THEIR KING AND COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 / [names] / I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE'. The south-west face is inscribed with the later C20 dedications and reads 'IN LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939 - 1945/ [names] / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE / THE FALKLANDS 1982 / [name]
Sources
Websites
Information on Swavesey War Memorial from the Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register, accessed 8 February 2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/46599
Information on Swavesey War Memorial from the War Memorials Trust, accessed 8 February 2016 from http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=410
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: a single-step base, square plinth and a tall shaft with a Latin cross head) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
Map
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