Fring War Memorial
Docking Road, Fring, Norfolk, PE31 6SH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1443625
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Fring War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Docking Road, Fring, Norfolk, PE31 6SH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1443625
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Fring War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Docking Road, Fring, Norfolk, PE31 6SH
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:
- Docking Road, Fring, Norfolk, PE31 6SH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fring
- National Grid Reference:
- TF7368534735
Summary
First World War memorial. Wheel-head grey granite cross on a plinth with single-stepped base.
Reasons for Designation
Fring War Memorial, which is situated on a green at the junction of Docking Road and Fring Road, 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 First World War;
* Architectural interest: a simple but poignant granite memorial cross;
* Degree of survival: unusually the memorial has not been adapted for Second World War commemoration and thus retains its original design intent.
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 Fring as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War.
The memorial was erected at the centre of the hamlet in commemoration of six local servicemen who fell in the First World War. The first name on the war memorial is that of the eldest son of Richard Dusgate of Fring Hall: it is possible that the memorial was commissioned and paid for by the Lord of the Manor.
Details
MATERIALS: Grey granite.
DESCRIPTION: Fring war memorial is located on a small green at the junction of Docking Road and Fring Road. It comprises a rough-hewn wheel-head cross with a reversed sword carved in relief on the front face. The c2.5m tall cross stands on a tapering plinth with a single-stepped base. The plinth bears the inscriptions in applied metal lettering. The dedication reads TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ (6 NAMES).
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/19793
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/164923
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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