War Memorial outside the Church of St Dunstan, Edge Hill
Church of St Dunstan, Earle Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, L7 6HD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1434940
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-2016
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial outside the Church of St Dunstan, Edge Hill
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Dunstan, Earle Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, L7 6HD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1434940
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-2016
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial outside the Church of St Dunstan, Edge Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Dunstan, Earle Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, L7 6HD
- Statutory Address 2:
- Church of St Dunstan, Earle Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, L7 6HD
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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:
- Church of St Dunstan, Earle Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, L7 6HD
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Dunstan, Earle Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, L7 6HD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3734989522
Summary
First World War memorial, 1921.
Reasons for Designation
The war memorial outside the church of St Dunstan, Edge Hill, 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;
* Architectural interest: a richly ornamented Celtic cross;
* Degree of survival: unusually the memorial has not been adapted for Second World War commemoration, and thus retains its original design intent;
* Group value: with the church of St Dunstan (Grade II*).
History
The war memorial at St Dunstan’s church, Edge Hill, was originally erected in front of the adjacent vicarage, where it was dedicated in 1921 by Archdeacon Spooner of Liverpool, unveiled by Brigadier-General Ernest Hunter Rodwell. The ceremony, following a service in the church, was recorded by British Pathé; the newsreel shows the large assembly laying their wreaths and floral tributes at the new cross.
The memorial was moved across the road from the vicarage (now a private residence), to the current (2016) location to the right of the church’s Earle Road entrance.
Details
The memorial has a two-stepped, square, base, with the lower step of smoothly finished sandstone whilst the upper is rough-hewn. Standing on the base is a large plinth, which is also made of rough-hewn sandstone. The plinth has a smooth square sandstone plaque to the front (south) face, which bears the inscription of the names of 112 fallen soldiers.
On top of the plinth is a small, smooth, square sandstone block bearing the principal dedicatory inscription TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN/ OF THIS CHURCH & PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ THE GREAT WAR 1914 TO 1918, carved in low relief.
Rising from the block is a tall sandstone Celtic cross, richly ornamented with interlace designs and geometric patterns on all sides, carved in relief. These designs include Celtic knots and biting dragons reflecting various styles found in Anglo-Saxon and Viking art and on early stone crosses. At the top of the shaft the wheel-head cross also has designs carved in relief on all sides. These designs include four bosses with cherub heads on the front and rear faces of the cross head, and further Celtic knots.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 14/03/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2549
British Pathe, accessed 13/03/2016 from http://www.britishpathe.com/video/liverpool-war-memorial/query/Dunstan
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/231010
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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