Hinton War Memorial

War Memorial, Junction A35 Lyndhurst Road and B3055 Bashley Cross Road, Hinton, Christchurch, BH23 7DX

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War memorial cross, c1920, by Farmer and Brindley. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1439016
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-2016
List Entry Name:: Hinton War Memorial
Statutory Address:: War Memorial, Junction A35 Lyndhurst Road and B3055 Bashley Cross Road, Hinton, Christchurch, BH23 7DX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1439016
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-2016
List Entry Name:: Hinton War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: War Memorial, Junction A35 Lyndhurst Road and B3055 Bashley Cross Road, Hinton, Christchurch, BH23 7DX

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: War Memorial, Junction A35 Lyndhurst Road and B3055 Bashley Cross Road, Hinton, Christchurch, BH23 7DX

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: New Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Bransgore
National Grid Reference:: SZ2131095909

Summary

War memorial cross, c1920, by Farmer and Brindley.

Reasons for Designation

The Hinton War Memorial, c1920, 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; * Architectural interest: a typical form for a memorial but richly embellished with highly detailed, intricate relief mouldings.

History

In the years following the First World War a great wave of memorial building honoured the many thousands of troops lost, marking the great impact of the international conflict at a local level. Memorials provided a focal point for grieving communities, whose dead were often not repatriated.

The memorial at Hinton is one such example, erected on a crossing in the dispersed settlement and paid for by public subscription, commemorating the 15 local men who died in the conflict. The memorial was erected by Farmer and Brindley, a prominent firm of architectural masons and carvers whose work features on a number of notable buildings, including the Natural History Museum. They supplied a number of First World War memorials, including that at nearby Burley.

The memorial was added to following the Second World War, commemorating the two fallen soldiers.

Details

War memorial cross, c1920, by Farmer and Brindley.

MATERIALS: the memorial is constructed from Portland stone.

DESCRIPTION: a Celtic wheel cross with a tapering square shaft, standing upon a plinth with two steps. The front of the cross faces north-east, and the head and neck have intricate relief mouldings of Celtic knots and flower heads. The plinth has an incised inscription: ‘THIS CROSS IS ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS / OF HINTON IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE / CONNECTED WITH THIS VILLAGE WHO SACRIFICED / THEIR LIVES IN DEFENCE OF THEIR KING AND / COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-1919 / THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD / AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN / AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING / WE WILL REMEMBER THEM’. Above, on the shaft, are the names of the 15 men who dies in the conflict, and beneath, the inscription ‘1939-1945’ and the names of the two men who died in the Second World War.

The cross stands on a paved square base and is enclosed by a chain fence with four tapering square posts on each side.

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 23/08/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/137622
War Memorials Register, accessed 23/08/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/48813

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.