Pelsall Memorial Cross
Station Road, Pelsall, Walsall, WS3 4BB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1434492
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Pelsall Memorial Cross
- Statutory Address:
- Station Road, Pelsall, Walsall, WS3 4BB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1434492
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Pelsall Memorial Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- Station Road, Pelsall, Walsall, WS3 4BB
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:
- Station Road, Pelsall, Walsall, WS3 4BB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK0235003397
Summary
First World War memorial, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Pelsall Memorial Cross, standing on Pelsall Common, 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 tall and elegant memorial cross.
History
Pelsall Memorial Cross was built by monumental masons Messrs J White and sons, who were also responsible for several other war memorials including those at Shirley, Halifax, the Grade II-listed obelisk to the Meriden Cyclists, and the Belgian Exiles tablet in Birmingham Council house. Erected to commemorate local servicemen who died during the First World War, the site of the memorial cost £298. Following the Second World War additions were made to commemorate those who died in that conflict.
Details
The tall stone memorial is located at the northern-most end of Pelsall Common. On the top stands a granite cross with a square type of wheel-head rising from a slender octagonal shaft, supported by an octagonal plinth. That stands on a four-stepped, octagonal, base. Bronze plaques on four side of the plinth carry the First World War inscriptions and names.
The principal dedicatory inscription reads 1914-1919/ REMEMBER WITH/ THANKSGIVING/ THE TRUE & FAITHFUL MEN/ WHO IN THESE YEARS OF WAR/ WENT FORTH FROM THIS/ PLACE/ FOR GOD AND THE RIGHT/ THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO/ RETURNED NOT AGAIN ARE/ HERE INSCRIBED TO BE/ HONOURED FOR EVERMORE/ FOR I SENT YOU OUT WITH/ MOURNING & WEEPING BUT GOD/ WILL GIVE YOU TO ME AGAIN/ WITH JOY & GLADNESS FOR/ EVER.
The names of commemorated servicemen who died during the First World War are listed on three plaques. The fifth bronze plaque, recording 18 men and one woman who died during the Second World War, reads 1939 – 1945 (19 NAMES) and is set into the ground close to the memorial cross, beside which are three stone tablets recording a further 60 names.
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, 17 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 17/03/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/17627
Burntwood Family History Group, accessed 17/03/2016 from http://bfhg.org.uk/W-Pelsall.php
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/164439
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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