Kimberley Park War Memorial
Kimberley Park, Kimberley Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2DB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1439750
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Kimberley Park War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Kimberley Park, Kimberley Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2DB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1439750
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Kimberley Park War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Kimberley Park, Kimberley Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2DB
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:
- Kimberley Park, Kimberley Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2DB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Falmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SW8018332736
Summary
A war memorial cross of mid-C20 date, crafted of dressed granite.
Reasons for Designation
Kimberley Park War Memorial, Cornwall, 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 well-crafted cross in dressed granite.
History
The war memorial to the men and women of Falmouth who fell in the First and Second World Wars is of mid-C20 date.
Details
A war memorial cross of mid-C20 date.
MATERIALS: of dressed granite.
DESCRIPTION: a plain tapering cross on a three-stepped square base and tapering plinth. The cross has an incised front (south) face with TO OUR/ GLORIOUS/ DEAD inscribed within a roundel at the base of the shaft. THe north face is inscribed: THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919. The cross shaft stands on a square base and a plaque is attached to the south face which reads: THIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES/ THE NAMES OF THE/ MEN AND WOMEN/ OF FALMOUTH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE WAR OF – 1939 – 1945/ THE NAMES OF THE FALLEN ARE RECORDED/ IN THE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE/ IN THE PARISH CHURCH. The plinth below has a plaque that reads: THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918, below which (and to the other faces) the plinth is inscribed with names of the fallen.
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, 24 February 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 24 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/250875
War Memorials Register, accessed 24 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/9187
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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