Radnage War Memorial

Mudds Bank, Radnage, High Wycombe, HP14 4DW

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

War memorial, 1920. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1446152
Date first listed:: 03-May-2017
List Entry Name:: Radnage War Memorial
Statutory Address:: Mudds Bank, Radnage, High Wycombe, HP14 4DW

User submitted image — Uploaded by War Memorials Online This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1446152
Date first listed:: 03-May-2017
List Entry Name:: Radnage War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: Mudds Bank, Radnage, High Wycombe, HP14 4DW

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Mudds Bank, Radnage, High Wycombe, HP14 4DW

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Radnage
National Grid Reference:: SU7853996717

Summary

War memorial, 1920.

Reasons for Designation

Radnage War Memorial, 1920, 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 sacrifice it has made in the conflicts of the C20; * Design: a modest yet well-executed memorial.

History

A great wave of memorial building took place in the years following the First World War, honouring the many thousands of troops lost and marking the great impact of the international conflict at a local level. Memorials provided a focal point for grieving communities, whose dead were often not repatriated.

The memorial at Radnage is one such example, erected on an enclosed patch of land in the small village. It was dedicated on 1 May 1920, in a ceremony attended by the Bishop Suffragan of Buckingham, and records the names of the eleven local men who fell in the First World War, and was added to following the Second World War, recording the names of four men.

Details

War memorial, of 1920, located in a small garden N of Mudds Bank, to the E of Lea Cottage.

MATERIALS: the memorial is constructed from limestone.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial consists of cross rising from a tapering square base. The shaft has a round head and marginal moulding, and a croix pattée in relief, beneath which is the incised, painted inscription: ‘TO THE / GLORY OF GOD / AND IN / SACRED MEMORY OF / THE GALLANT MEN OF / RADNAGE / WHO DIED IN THE / - GREAT WARS / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945’. The plinth is inscribed with the names of the 11 soldiers lost in the First World War, with their rank and regiment, and the four lost in the Second World War.

The cross stands on a paved area with stone edgings.

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 Online, accessed 6 June 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/230791
War Memorials Register, accessed 6 June 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/8323
Other
Report in the South Bucks Free Press, 7 May 1920

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.