Middleton One Row St Laurence's War Memorial

Former churchyard of St Laurence's Church, Church Lane, Middleton One Row, Darlington, DL2 1AW

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First World War memorial, 1922, with Second World War and Iraq War additions. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1440044
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-2016
List Entry Name:: Middleton One Row St Laurence's War Memorial
Statutory Address:: Former churchyard of St Laurence's Church, Church Lane, Middleton One Row, Darlington, DL2 1AW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1440044
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-2016
List Entry Name:: Middleton One Row St Laurence's War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: Former churchyard of St Laurence's Church, Church Lane, Middleton One Row, Darlington, DL2 1AW

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:: Former churchyard of St Laurence's Church, Church Lane, Middleton One Row, Darlington, DL2 1AW

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

District:: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Middleton St. George
National Grid Reference:: NZ3489512380

Summary

First World War memorial, 1922, with Second World War and Iraq War additions.

Reasons for Designation

Middleton One Row War Memorial, which stands within the former churchyard of St Lawrence's Church, 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 and the early C21; * Design: a simple yet poignant memorial in the form of a Celtic Cross in a pink/grey conglomerate with relief carving; * Group value: it benefits from a spatial group value with the adjacent Church of St Lawrence.

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 England. This was the result of both the huge impact on communities of the loss of three quarters of a million British lives, and also the official policy of not repatriating the dead: therefore the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss. One such memorial was raised at Middleton One Row as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War.

Middleton One Row St Laurence's War Memorial was erected in 1922 and unveiled and dedicated on 8 April by the Lord Bishop of Durham, Dr Hensley Henson. In 1947 a memorial garden was laid out around the war memorial. The memorial was restored in the late C20 and re-dedicated in 1997.

Details

First World War memorial, 1922, with Second World War and Iraq War additions.

MATERIALS: pink/grey conglomerate

The memorial is situated at the entrance to the former churchyard of the Church of St Lawrence. It takes the form of a free standing, roughly-hewn Celtic cross on a short, tapering shaft set upon a two-tiered pedestal, reached by two stone steps. A wreath and a sword (eroded) are carved in half relief over the crosspiece of the cross. The dedications and names are in applied lead lettering. The dedication to the fallen of the First World war is inscribed on the face of the shaft: SACRED/ TO/ THE MEMORY/ OF OUR MEN/ WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919. The names are in two columns separated by a vertical line below the dedication on the front face of the upper pedestal. The dedication to the fallen of the Second World War is on the left side of the upper pedestal and reads: TO/ THE/ GLORIOUS/ DEAD/ 1939-1946, (NAMES). The name of a single Royal Military Policeman who fell in Iraq in 2003 has been added to the riser of the lower pedestal.

This List entry has been amended to add the sources for War Memorials Online and North East War Memorials Project. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 12 September 2018.

Sources

Websites
North East War memorials Project, accessed 12 September 2018 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=8000
War Memorials Online, accessed 22 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/218747
War Memorials Register, accessed 14-10-2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10210

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 is 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.