Cleobury North War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1444422
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Cleobury North War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1444422
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Cleobury North War Memorial
- Location Description:
- St Peter and St Paul Parish Church, Cleobury North, Bridgnorth, Shropshire
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cleobury North
- National Grid Reference:
- SO6230686996
Summary
A churchyard war memorial in the form of a sandstone cross, dedicated in March 1920, designed by RB Dawson and carved by George Brown and son.
Reasons for Designation
Cleobury North War Memorial, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impacts of world events on this community, and the sacrifices it made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Architectural interest: as an accomplished and well-realised war memorial, which takes the form of a churchyard cross on a stepped plinth;
* Group value: the cross forms a group with the Church of St Peter and St Paul (Grade II*).
History
Tens of thousands of war memorials were erected across England in the aftermath of the First World War. The memorial at Cleobury Mortimer was designed by RB Dawson and the masons were George Brown and Son. It was dedicated on 7 March 1920 and altered after 1945.
Details
A churchyard war memorial dedicated in March 1920, designed by RB Dawson and carved by George Brown and Son.
MATERIALS and PLAN: Grinshill sandstone and limestone. A cross with tapered, octagonal shaft and arms above a moulded base with stepped plinth.
The cross head has carved foliage at the junctions between the arms of the cross. Each arm swells to a plain boss and there is a moulded ring at the juncture with the shaft. The shaft is tapered and rises from a moulded foot and is supported on a stepped base, the western side of which has an inset limestone plaque inscribed: ‘HERE AMID THE HALLOWED GRAVES / OF THEIR DEPARTED THE PEOPLE / OF CLEOBURY NORTH HAVE PLACED / THIS MEMORIAL TO THOSE WHO DIED / FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918’. The names of the fallen are inscribed on the topmost step of the plinth. On the east side is inscribed ‘BY THIS MEMORIAL THE PEOPLE / OF CLEOBURY NORTH ALSO / COMMEMORATE WITH PRIDE / AND GRATITUDE THEIR / FELLOW COUNTRYMEN WHO / FELL IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945’ (the name of the fallen on the upper step, below). The other two sides are blank.
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, 6 March 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 6 March 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/57282
War Memorials Online, accessed 6 March 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/173947
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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