Dolton War Memorial, including memorial cross and garden walls, railings, gate piers, and gate

War Memorial Garden, Junction of Fore Street and South Street, Dolton, Winkleigh, Devon, EX19 8QS

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Overview

First World War memorial cross and garden, unveiled 1921, with later additions for the Second World War, unveiled 1947. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1449520
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-2017
List Entry Name:: Dolton War Memorial, including memorial cross and garden walls, railings, gate piers, and gate
Statutory Address:: War Memorial Garden, Junction of Fore Street and South Street, Dolton, Winkleigh, Devon, EX19 8QS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1449520
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-2017
List Entry Name:: Dolton War Memorial, including memorial cross and garden walls, railings, gate piers, and gate
Statutory Address 1:: War Memorial Garden, Junction of Fore Street and South Street, Dolton, Winkleigh, Devon, EX19 8QS

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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Location

Statutory Address:: War Memorial Garden, Junction of Fore Street and South Street, Dolton, Winkleigh, Devon, EX19 8QS

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

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Dolton
National Grid Reference:: SS5712312138

Summary

First World War memorial cross and garden, unveiled 1921, with later additions for the Second World War, unveiled 1947.

Reasons for Designation

Dolton War Memorial, including memorial cross and garden walls, railings, gate piers, and gate, in the garden at the junction of South Street and Fore Street, 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 made in the conflicts of the C20. Architectural interest: * an imposing wheel-head cross in granite, standing in a memorial garden with contemporary walls, railings, gate piers, and gate.

Group value:

* with 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 Dolton 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 cross was unveiled on Armistice Day 1921 by Major-General J Campbell CB CMG DSO, commemorating the local servicemen who died in the conflict. The war memorial ensemble including the cross and its railed enclosure cost about £190. Following the Second World War the names of those who had died in that conflict were added, and the new dedication was unveiled on 28 September 1947 by Major Sir RD Furse.

Details

MATERIALS: granite, Dolton stone, ironwork.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands in a small garden enclosure at the junction of South Street and Fore Street. Numerous Grade II-listed buildings are clustered around this road junction. The c3m tall Dartmoor granite wheel-head cross rises from a pedestal, square on plan, which stands on a square base. The principal dedicatory inscription on the front face of the pedestal reads TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED/ MEMORY OF MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 -1918/ (NAMES). The commemorated names are recorded by regiment or service, and the Second World War names are listed to one side.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the garden is enclosed by a coped wall, in Dolton stone, carrying hoop-topped iron railings: except to the rear, where the stonework of the wall is raised above the garden’s lawn and is not railed. The cross is approached from street level by a rake of steps leading up from the garden gate: the gate is also formed of hoop-topped rails, with dog rails, and is carried on stone piers with pyramidal caps.

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, 22 November 2017.

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 22 November 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/248296
War Memorials Register, accessed 22 November 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25901
Other
“Dolton War Memorial”, Western Times, 19 November 1921, p7

Legal

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