Denwick War Memorial
Denwick, Northumberland, NE66 3RD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1433767
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Denwick War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Denwick, Northumberland, NE66 3RD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1433767
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Denwick War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Denwick, Northumberland, NE66 3RD
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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:
- Denwick, Northumberland, NE66 3RD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Denwick
- National Grid Reference:
- NU2049514275
Summary
First World War memorial, 1920.
Reasons for Designation
Denwick War Memorial, which stands opposite the Denwick Hamlet 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 this local community, and the sacrifice it has made in the First World War;
* Degree of survival: unusually the war memorial has not been adapted for Second World War commemoration, and thus retains its original design intent;
* Group value: with 21 and 23 Denwick Village (Grade II).
History
Denwick War Memorial was unveiled on 14 November 1920 by the Duke of Northumberland, and dedicated by Canon Mangin, Vicar of Alnwick, in memory of the 16 local servicemen who had died during the First World War. The stone, from a local quarry, was donated by Messrs Green and Son and the remaining costs were defrayed by public subscription; the memorial was designed by Mr M Temple Wilson and made by Mr JE Watson, both of Alnwick.
Details
The memorial stands on the wall opposite Denwick Hamlet Church and 21 and 23 Denwick Village (Grade II), to the south side of the junction of the B1340 and the lane that skirts the north-eastern side of Alnwick Castle’s Grade I-registered park. It comprises at c2m tall wheel-head cross in Denwick freestone, rising from a small, tapering pedestal, square on plan. That stands on the coping, raised in two stages, of a panel in the centre of a retaining wall. A small stone vase stands in front of the pedestal.
Below the cross, a stone plaque let into the wall bears the principal dedicatory inscription TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF/ THOSE FROM THE PARISH OF DENWICK/ WHO SERVED THEIR KING AND COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918/ AND OF WHOM/ THE FOLLOWING LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ (16 NAMES)/ DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI.
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, 9 February 2017.
Sources
Websites
North East War Memorials Project - Denwick, accessed 08/04/2016 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7087
War Memorials Register, accessed 9 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/33660
War Memorials Online, accessed 9 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/225188
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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