War memorial adjacent to St Mary's Church
High Street, Buriton, Hampshire, GU315RT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1447997
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-2005
- List Entry Name:
- War memorial adjacent to St Mary's Church
- Statutory Address:
- High Street, Buriton, Hampshire, GU315RT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1447997
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-2005
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jul-2017
- List Entry Name:
- War memorial adjacent to St Mary's Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- High Street, Buriton, Hampshire, GU315RT
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:
- High Street, Buriton, Hampshire, GU315RT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buriton
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU7397920031
Summary
First World War memorial, unveiled 1920, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Buriton War Memorial, which stands in the junction of High Street and North Lane, 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.
Architectural interest:
* A memorial in the Gothic style, built in Portland stone.
Group value
* With the Grade II*-listed Church of St Mary and numerous Grade II-listed buildings in the environs.
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 Buriton as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by 38 members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War.
The memorial scheme was promoted by Lothian Bonham-Carter JP and funded by public subscription: £115 was collected by parishioners. The monument was designed by the architect HT Edwards and erected by the Art Memorial Company of West Norwood, London. It was unveiled by Major General Gunning Campbell, commandant of the Royal Marine Artillery at nearby Eastney, and the Bishop of Guildford dedicated it, in June 1920.
Following the Second World War, the names of eight men who died in that conflict were added.
Details
The Portland stone memorial stands on a small green area in the junction of High Street and North Lane, to the north-west of the Church of St Mary (Grade II*-listed) and the Grade II-listed churchyard gates, with numerous other listed buildings in the environs. It takes the form of a Gothic shrine surmounted by a cross.
The two-stepped base, square on plan, is surmounted by a tall plinth of two stages, chamfered at the corners. The middle stage provides four panels facing north, south, east and west, separated at the corners by tall splayed blind panels with Gothic ornament and gabled heads. This is surmounted by a short octagonal drum with recessed blind panels with ogee heads on the north, south, east and west faces. The whole is surmounted by a tapering spire topped by a small floriated wheel-head cross.
On the west-facing panel of the central stage the principal dedicatory inscription reads: +/ IN PROUD/ AND GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF/ THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WARS/ 1914 - 1919/ &/ 1939 - 1945. On the panels facing north and south are inscribed 38 names in alphabetical order. On the panel facing east is the inscription RIP/ 1939 – 1945, followed by eight names in alphabetical order. Two curved stone dwarf walls enclose the monument, broken by an entrance to the south.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 23 May 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/40296
War Memorials Online, accessed 22 May 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/84230
Buriton Parish Council, accessed 24 May 2017 from http://buriton.info/parish-council
Hampshire Record Office, newspaper article (1920), accessed 23 May 2017 from http://calm.hants.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=AHH1%2f7%2f17&pos=7
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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