Neen Savage War Memorial
St. Mary's Church, Neen Savage, Shropshire, DY14 8JU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1437265
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Neen Savage War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- St. Mary's Church, Neen Savage, Shropshire, DY14 8JU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1437265
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Neen Savage War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- St. Mary's Church, Neen Savage, Shropshire, DY14 8JU
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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:
- St. Mary's Church, Neen Savage, Shropshire, DY14 8JU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Neen Savage
- National Grid Reference:
- SO6746377331
Summary
A churchyard war memorial of c. 1920.
Reasons for Designation
Neen Savage war memorial, Shropshire 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 community, and the sacrifices it made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Architectural interest: as an accomplished and well-realised war memorial, which takes the form of a plain, ashlar Latin cross on a square base;
* Group value: the monument has group value with the church of St Mary, Neen Savage (Grade II*).
History
The monument appears to date from c. 1920 and was added to after 1945.
Details
A churchyard war memorial of c. 1920 and after 1945.
MATERIALS & PLAN: the monument takes the form of a plain ashlar cross with square base and stepped plinth which is placed to the south east of the church and adjacent the churchyard wall, over which it can be clearly seen from the road.
The plain body of the Latin cross is without ornament. It rises from a square base which is inscribed to its eastern side: ‘IN MEMORY OF / THE VALIANT MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO FELL IN THE / SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY / DURING THE GREAT WAR. / 1914 – 1918 / “DO THOU FOR ENGLAND LIVE: / WE FOR ENGLAND DIED”. Names of the fallen are inscribed on the flanks. On the western side is inscribed: ‘ALSO THE SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 – 1945’ with names of the fallen, below which is “AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN / THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM”.
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, 23 November 2017.
Sources
Books and journals
Francis, Peter, Shropshire War Memorials; Sites of Remembrance, (2013), 122-123
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/13845
War Memorials Online, accessed 23 November 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/253629
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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