Lower Slaughter War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1437892
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Slaughter War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1437892
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Slaughter War Memorial
- Location Description:
- In the churchyard of St. Mary's Church, Lower Slaughter, Cotswold, Gloucestershire
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.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lower Slaughter
- National Grid Reference:
- SP1655822618
Summary
A First World War memorial, erected in 1920, by H H Martyn and Co; a further inscription added after the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Lower Slaughter War Memorial is listed 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;
* Design: a well-executed stone cross;
* Group value: with the Church of St Mary (Grade II*).
History
Lower Slaughter War Memorial was erected in 1920 as part of the great wave of commemoration following the First World War. The cross acted as a memorial to the fifteen men of the village who had died in the conflict. It was designed and made by H H Martyn and Co, a firm of sculptors, carvers and memorial masons based nearby in Cheltenham. The name of the soldier from the parish who had died in the Second World War was added to the cross after 1945.
Details
A First World War memorial, erected in 1920, by H H Martyn and Co; a further inscription added after the Second World War.
MATERIALS: limestone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial takes the form of a stone cross on a tapering shaft, mounted on a square plinth, which stands directly on a three-stepped stone platform. The shaft of the cross carries a carved sword and laurel wreath. The plinth is inscribed: IN MEMORY OF THE MEN / OF THIS PARISH / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 / (followed by the names of the fifteen men who lost their lives) / 1939-1945 / (followed by the name of the soldier who died in that war)/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.
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, 10 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 July 2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20978
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/146752
Other
Gloucestershire Archives GDR/F1/1/1920/79: Lower Slaughter – stone cross as war memorial, Photograph and correspondence from H H Martyn & Co, Faculty papers, 29 June 1920.
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
Map
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