Brimscombe War Memorial
Land at the junction of London Road and Brimscombe Lane, Brimscombe, Gloucestershire
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1434109
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Brimscombe War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Land at the junction of London Road and Brimscombe Lane, Brimscombe, Gloucestershire
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1434109
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Brimscombe War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Land at the junction of London Road and Brimscombe Lane, Brimscombe, Gloucestershire
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:
- Land at the junction of London Road and Brimscombe Lane, Brimscombe, Gloucestershire
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brimscombe and Thrupp
- National Grid Reference:
- SO8678202439
Summary
A First World War memorial, 1922, with later additions for the Second World War. Moved to its current location in c.1972.
Reasons for Designation
Brimscombe War Memorial, unveiled in 1922, 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 has made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Architectural interest: a well-crafted cross design in dressed stone.
History
The war memorial to members of Thrupp and Brimscombe Parish who served in the First World War was unveiled and dedicated on Sunday 22 October 1922. The service was conducted by Rev. S. Morgan of Thrupp and the memorial unveiled by Col. H. G. Ricardo. The memorial was later updated with a tribute to those who served in the Second World War.
It is shown on the Ordnance Survey Map of 1936 approximately 25m to the south east of its current location. It was moved following the widening of the trunk road between Stroud and Cirencester in the 1970s, and relocated to a high bank overlooking the road. Formerly it had been separated from the road by 11 steps, but at its new location there are 17 steps and a paved garden surrounding the cross. The memorial and its setting was restored in 2009 with a grant from the War Memorials Trust.
Details
A war memorial cross of 1922, moved to its current location on a steep bank on Brimscombe Corner in c.1972.
MATERIALS: constructed of local limestone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial is an octagonal obelisk on a square three-stepped base. The tapering shaft stands on a moulded plinth and is surmounted by a sphere. Four sides of the shaft are worked square, the other sides hollow. The four square sides form bands passing over the sphere, and around its circumference is a horizontal band, the combined bands forming a cross on each face of side of the sphere. The front face of the plinth is inscribed: TO THE/ GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF/ THRUPP -/ BRIMSCOMBE/ THESE GAVE/ THEIR LIVES/ SERVING/ THE KING/ IN THE YEARS/ OF OUR LORD/ 1914-1919/ ‘I am the/ resurrection/ and the life’. The rear face is inscribed: AND ALSO/ A/ THANKOFFERING/ TO/ ALMIGHTY GOD/ FOR THE/ RETURN HOME/ OF THEIR/ COMRADES./ Bless the/ Lord O my soul/ and forget not. The other faces are inscribed with the names of the fallen, with black lettering. An additional block at the front is set at an angle over the stepped base and is inscribed: 1939-1945/ (NAMES). The bottom step is broad and of two ashlar courses.
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 25 July 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 4 March 2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/130167
War Memorials Register, accessed 25 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/72462
Other
Gloucester Journal, Saturday 28 October 1922
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) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
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