Bradford on Avon Rowing Club War Memorial
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1447493
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Bradford on Avon Rowing Club War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1447493
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Bradford on Avon Rowing Club War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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:
- Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradford-on-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST8219160507
Summary
War memorial, erected in circa 1920.
Reasons for Designation
The war memorial at Bradford on Avon Rowing Club is listed at Grade II for the following reasons:
Architectural interest:
* For its well-executed and considered design as an upright, roughly-hewn, limestone boulder;
Historic interest:
* As an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, in particular the Bradford on Avon Rowing Club;
* Group value: with the Grade II* Barton Bridge and the designated assets of Barton Farm.
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 the country. 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 Bradford on Avon Rowing Club to commemorate the five men of the club who lost their lives during the First World War.
Details
War memorial, erected in circa 1920.
MATERIALS: constructed of roughly-hewn limestone with a bronze plaque attached to its east face.
DESCRIPTION: located within the grounds of the Bradford on Avon Rowing Club, near to the boathouse, the war memorial is an upright boulder of roughly-hewn limestone with a bronze plaque attached to its east face. At the top of the plaque is the rowing club’s badge, below which is the inscription:
IN MEMORY OF / THE MEMBERS OF THE / BRADFORD ON AVON / ROWING CLUB / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-18 / (NAMES).
The memorial records the names of the five men of the rowing club who died during the conflict.
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 1 September 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 27 June 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/24257
War Memorials Online, accessed 1 September 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/241545
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.
Map
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