Luppitt War Memorial

Church Hill, Luppitt, Honiton, Devon, EX14 4RY

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First World War memorial cross. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1449714
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-2017
List Entry Name:: Luppitt War Memorial
Statutory Address:: Church Hill, Luppitt, Honiton, Devon, EX14 4RY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1449714
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-2017
List Entry Name:: Luppitt War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: Church Hill, Luppitt, Honiton, Devon, EX14 4RY

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:: Church Hill, Luppitt, Honiton, Devon, EX14 4RY

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Luppitt
National Grid Reference:: ST1693906769

Summary

First World War memorial cross.

Reasons for Designation

Luppitt War Memorial, which stands on Church Hill, 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 First World War. Architectural interest:

* a simple yet poignant granite memorial cross; * unusually, the memorial has not been adapted for Second World War commemoration, and thus retains its original design intent.

Group value:

* with the Church of St Mary (Grade I) and numerous Grade II-listed churchyard monuments.

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 Luppitt as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War. In 1919, parishioners had decided to raise a cross in the churchyard to record the names of all who had served during the First World War, not only those who had died. In the event, the names of 10 servicemen who had lost their lives were recorded on the memorial cross. The memorial was refurbished in 2015.

Details

The granite memorial stands in a small enclosure about 22m to the east of the Church of St Mary (Grade I-listed), in close proximity to a number of churchyard monuments listed at Grade II. It takes the form of a tall Latin cross, square on plan and with slightly splayed cross arms, rising from a three-stepped, octagonal, base.

The principal dedicatory inscription, recorded on the front face of the cross and running down the cross shaft, reads TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ IN/ HONOURED/ MEMORY/ OF THE/ MEN OF/ LUPPITT/ WHO/ LAID DOWN/ THEIR LIVES/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ (NAMES)/ “GREATER LOVE/ HATH NO MAN/ THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY/ DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS.”

The memorial is raised from street level on a square platform, and enclosed by a rubble stone retaining wall in the embanked area at the roadside.

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, 10 November 2017.

Sources

Websites
Dunkeswell Mission Community, accessed 4 August 2017 from http://www.dunkeswell.org.uk/st-marys-church-luppitt/
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 November 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/253689
War Memorials Register, accessed 10 November 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/70616
Other
“Luppitt”, Western Times, 20 June 1919, p9

Legal

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