Northbourne War Memorial
Garden of Rest at the Church of St Peter, Newlands Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 8PN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1439201
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Northbourne War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Garden of Rest at the Church of St Peter, Newlands Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 8PN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1439201
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Northbourne War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Garden of Rest at the Church of St Peter, Newlands Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 8PN
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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:
- Garden of Rest at the Church of St Peter, Newlands Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 8PN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Didcot
- National Grid Reference:
- SU5226989574
Summary
First World War memorial unveiled on 15 May 1921.
Reasons for Designation
Northbourne 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 this community, and the sacrifices it has made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Architectural interest: a simple yet dignified Cornish granite wheel-head cross.
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 the country, both as a result of the huge impact the loss of three quarters of a million British lives had on communities and the official policy of not repatriating the dead, which meant that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss.
One such memorial was raised at Northbourne as a permanent testament to the sacrifices made by the members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War.
Northbourne War Memorial was unveiled and dedicated on 15 May 1921 by the vicar of East Hagbourne, Rev H A Smith-Masters, to the ten local servicemen who fell in the First World War. It was originally sited outside the former St Peter's Church on Church Street.
In 2001 a project was undertaken to secure the foundations with the help of grant funding from the War Memorials Trust. Following the work, the memorial was re-dedicated on 15 May 2001.
Details
MATERIALS: rough-hewn Cornish granite.
DESCRIPTION: Northbourne War Memorial stands in the Garden of Rest at St Peter's Church. It consists of a wheel-head cross on a tapering shaft on a three-stepped square base.
The top tier of the base is inscribed: IN GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF. This inscription continues onto the second tier which reads: THE MEN OF NORTHBOURNE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919. The other faces are inscribed with the names of the fallen.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Trust, accessed 21 August 2016 from www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=310
War Memorials Online, accessed 21 August 2016 from www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/92905
War Memorials Register, accessed 21 August 2016 from www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/31410
The Northbourne War Memorial, accessed 21 August 2016 from http://www.stpeters-didcot.org.uk/warmem.htm
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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