St Clement's War Memorial
Outside the W entrance to the Church of St Clement, Henwick Road, Worcester, WR2 5NP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1445132
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-2017
- List Entry Name:
- St Clement's War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Outside the W entrance to the Church of St Clement, Henwick Road, Worcester, WR2 5NP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1445132
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-2017
- List Entry Name:
- St Clement's War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Outside the W entrance to the Church of St Clement, Henwick Road, Worcester, WR2 5NP
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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
- Statutory Address:
- Outside the W entrance to the Church of St Clement, Henwick Road, Worcester, WR2 5NP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO8409154736
Summary
First World War memorial, dating from the early 1920s.
Reasons for Designation
The war memorial outside the Church of St Clement, Worcester is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this local community and the sacrifices it has made in the First World War;
* Architectural interest: as a well-executed and distinctive wheel-head cross with intricate Celtic carvings;
* Degree of survival: the memorial survives unaltered and in its original location;
* Group value: the memorial has a strong visual relationship with the Church of St Clement including gates and railings to the west (Grade II).
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, which meant that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss. One such memorial was raised at the Church of St Clement, Worcester 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 war memorial at the Church of St Clement is first recorded on the Ordnance Survey map of 1928, and is likely to have been erected in the early 1920s.
Details
First World War memorial, likely to have been unveiled in the early 1920s.
MATERIALS: constructed of granite.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial takes the form of a Celtic wheel-head cross which stands on a rectangular, tapered plinth and two-stepped base. The cross head and the shaft are decorated with Celtic-style interlace carvings. The N and S faces of the arms of the cross each feature a carved fleur-de-lis motif. The plinth is inscribed on the N face with IN/ GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ THE PARISH AND CONGREGATION/ OF S. CLEMENT’S/ WHO FELL WHILE SERVING IN/ THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR/ 1914-1919. The W face of the plinth features the names of the 66 men from the community who lost their lives during the First World War. The S face is inscribed with ‘‘GREATER LOVE/ HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS’’/ S. JOHN XV 13.
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 June 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 6 June 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/32215
War Memorials Online, accessed 6 June 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/92117
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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