Weston Turville War Memorial
Junction of School Lane and Worlds End Lane, Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5SE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1433604
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Weston Turville War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Junction of School Lane and Worlds End Lane, Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5SE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1433604
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Weston Turville War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Junction of School Lane and Worlds End Lane, Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5SE
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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:
- Junction of School Lane and Worlds End Lane, Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5SE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weston Turville
- National Grid Reference:
- SP8538810569
Summary
First World War memorial, 1920, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Weston Turville War Memorial, which stands on the green at the junction of School Lane and Worlds End 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 this local community, and the sacrifice it has made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Architectural interest: a simple yet dignified memorial cross;
* Group value: with the Union Chapel and The Beeches, both Grade II-listed.
History
A war memorial committee of ex-servicemen was active during 1919, making arrangements for a suitable memorial in the village. In November 1919, Aylesbury Rural District Council gave the Parish Council permission to erect the memorial on the Green, and by January 1920 the cross was in place, within a railed enclosure (which has since been removed).
The memorial originally commemorated 20 local men who died in the First World War. Following the Second World War an inscription and the names of seven men who died in that conflict were added. In 2002 five names from the First World War and two from the Second were added and the memorial was re-dedicated on 10 November that year.
Details
Weston Turville War Memorial stands on the north side of a small green at the junction of Worlds End Lane and School Lane. It comprises a granite Celtic cross raised on a tapering plinth that stands on a square, two-stepped, base.
The principal dedicatory inscription on the front face of the plinth reads TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 – 19/ (20 NAMES)/ “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN/ LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.” A small panel cut into the left face of the plinth contains the five First World War and two Second World War names added in 2002. A small stone block, standing on the lower step of the base, reads WORLD WAR 1939-1945/ (7 NAMES). All the inscriptions are in applied metal letters. All the names are listed with rank, in order of date of death.
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, 11 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 February 2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/8055
Weston Turville Historical Society, accessed 17/02/2016 from http://www.wthsoc.org.uk/war-memorial
War Memorials Online, accessed 11 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/115264
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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