Staxton and Willerby War Memorial

Memorial Gardens, Ings Lane, Staxton, North Yorkshire, YO12 4RX

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War memorial, dedicated 1920, stone column surmounted by a Latin cross, set on a stone podium. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1447816
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-2017
List Entry Name:: Staxton and Willerby War Memorial
Statutory Address:: Memorial Gardens, Ings Lane, Staxton, North Yorkshire, YO12 4RX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1447816
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-2017
List Entry Name:: Staxton and Willerby War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: Memorial Gardens, Ings Lane, Staxton, North Yorkshire, YO12 4RX

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Memorial Gardens, Ings Lane, Staxton, North Yorkshire, YO12 4RX

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Willerby
National Grid Reference:: TA0146979054

Summary

War memorial, dedicated 1920, stone column surmounted by a Latin cross, set on a stone podium.

Reasons for Designation

Staxton and Willerby War Memorial is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Historic interest:

* As an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on a small rural community, and the sacrifices it made during the First World War;

Architectural interest:

* A well-executed and elegant design in the form of a slender Latin cross.

History

The Staxton and Willerby War Memorial was erected during 1920 to commemorate the men of the village and surrounding area, who perished during the First World War. It stands on a prominent position in a grassed area within the south-east angle of a cross roads at the centre of the village, opposite the former Willerby (Staxton) County Council School. Originally, it stood within an enclosure formed by low timber posts linked together by a chain; this was removed in 2014 and replaced by a new galvanised fence enclosure, accessed from the north-west by a concrete path.

Details

War memorial, dedicated in 1920, stone column surmounted by a cross, set on a stone podium.

MATERIALS: ashlar gritstone with inset polished granite panels.

PLAN: a square base and hexagonal shaft.

The memorial comprises a slender hexagonal section shaft; the capital of the shaft supports a Latin cross whose limbs terminate in shallow pyramidal caps. The shaft stands on a square ashlar pedestal with chamfered upper corners and a hexagonal upper surface; it is raised on a square two-stepped podium. The front panel of the pedestal is inscribed – REMEMBER / THE MEN OF WILLERBY / WHO DIED FOR / KING AND COUNTRY / 1914-1919, and the two side panel inscriptions record the 14 Fallen from the parish.

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 May 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/157185/
Other
Bridlington Free Press, Saturday 15 November 1924, page 4 column 5

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.