Urmston Memorial Cross
Golden Hill Park, Crofts Bank Road, Urmston, Greater Manchester, M41 0UB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1437489
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Urmston Memorial Cross
- Statutory Address:
- Golden Hill Park, Crofts Bank Road, Urmston, Greater Manchester, M41 0UB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1437489
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Urmston Memorial Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- Golden Hill Park, Crofts Bank Road, Urmston, Greater Manchester, M41 0UB
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:
- Golden Hill Park, Crofts Bank Road, Urmston, Greater Manchester, M41 0UB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ7658394951
Summary
First World War memorial, with additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Urmston Memorial Cross, which stands in Golden Hill Park, 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 richly ornamented memorial cross in the Celtic style.
History
The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. One such memorial was raised in Golden Hill Park, Urmston, as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War.
The memorial is not mapped on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 County Series map published in 1928, but was in position by the time the following edition was published in 1937. Following the Second World War a dedication was added to the memorial to commemorate the town’s losses in that conflict.
Details
The memorial stands in Golden Hill Park, to the north of the Police Station and facing Crofts Bank Road. It takes the form of a tall granite Celtic cross. The front and rear faces of the cross are richly ornamented with intricate interlace patterns carved in low relief, overlain on the front face by a reversed sword. The cross rises from a tapering pedestal. That stands on a four-stepped base.
The principal dedicatory inscription on the front face of the pedestal reads IN LASTING MEMORY/ OF THOSE WHO MADE/ THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918. Below this, on the front face of the deepest step of the base, the later dedication reads ALSO IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939 – 1945. The rear on the pedestal is inscribed TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND COUNTRY with, to the side, LEST WE FORGET.
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, 23 November 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 08/07/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27092
Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society, accessed 08/07/2016 from http://www.mlfhs.org.uk/data/war_memorials_images.php?memorial=695
War Memorials Online, accessed 23 November 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/253628
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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