Barrow Gurney War Memorial
Barrow Street, Barrow Gurney
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1439684
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Barrow Gurney War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Barrow Street, Barrow Gurney
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1439684
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Barrow Gurney War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Barrow Street, Barrow Gurney
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:
- Barrow Street, Barrow Gurney
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barrow Gurney
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5315167853
Summary
A village war memorial of c1920, with additions after 1945.
Reasons for Designation
Barrow Gurney 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;
* Architectural interest: as an accomplished and well-realised war memorial, which takes the form of a sandstone cross with Calvary head on a tapered shaft with a statue of a knight set in a niche;
* Group value: with Steps Farmhouse and attached garden walls, gatepiers and steps, Barrow Gurney (Grade II).
History
A war memorial of c1920, with additions after 1945. In 2004 a grant of £250 for repair of the perimeter wall was given by War Memorials Trust.
Details
A village war memorial of c1920, with additions after 1945.
MATERIALS and PLAN: sandstone. The memorial has a hooded Calvary to its top with an octagonal shaft which features a statue of a knight standing behind a shield, set in a niche. Below this the octagonal base rises above a plinth of three steep steps. Surrounding the monument is a square enclosure which has a stone kerb, which appears to be original.
The north face is the principal front and faces the road. The Calvary has a gable to its top with brattished outline and a projecting, brattished ring to the top of the shaft. The carved figure of the knight wears armour and is placed in a niche, approximately half way up the shaft, which has a canopy with an ogee arch and crocketed finials. The shaft dies to a square bottom by broach stops. Below this the drum of the octagonal base has recessed panels to each side showing a quatrefoil with a richly-moulded square boss to the centre. The exception is the north face which bears the words in relief ‘CHRIST.DIED / FOR.ALL.MEN / THESE.FOR / THEIR.COUNTRY’ The names of the fallen are inscribed below on the steps of the plinth. Names of the fallen from the Second World War are inscribed on the south face beneath the dates ‘1939 – 1945’. Each step has a cyma moulded lip.
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, 27 February 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 27 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/29848
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/94452
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.
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