War Memorial at Queen's College
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1435243
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-2016
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial at Queen's College
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1435243
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-2016
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial at Queen's College
- Location Description:
- Trull Road, Comeytrowe, Taunton Deane, Somerset
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST2177623081
Summary
First World War memorial, erected c1920, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
The war memorial at Queen’s College is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Architectural interest: an accomplished and well-realised design;
* Group value: it has group value with the Grade II* Queen’s College.
History
The great age of memorial building was in the aftermath of the First World War with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. It is not known when the war memorial at Queen’s College was erected and commemorated, but it was likely to be during the 1920s. Additional inscriptions were added following the Second World War.
Details
First World War memorial, erected c1920, with later additions for the Second World War.
MATERIALS: carved from stone.
DESCRIPTION: the war memorial comprises a Latin cross with an octagonal shaft and cross arm, standing on a three-stepped octagonal base. The west and east face of the second step of the platform is inscribed ‘1914-1919’, and the north and south face is inscribed ‘1939-1945’.
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, 15 December 2016.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 22/03/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/68518
War Memorials Online, accessed 15/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/232962
Other
Somerset Historic Environment Record: War memorial, Queen's College, Trull Road, Comeytrowe 24568
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
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