Collingbourne Ducis War Memorial
Memorial Green, Church Street, Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, SN8 3EL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1451623
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Collingbourne Ducis War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Memorial Green, Church Street, Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, SN8 3EL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1451623
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Collingbourne Ducis War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Memorial Green, Church Street, Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, SN8 3EL
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:
- Memorial Green, Church Street, Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, SN8 3EL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Collingbourne Ducis
- National Grid Reference:
- SU2425653668
Summary
First World War memorial with a Second World War addition.
Reasons for Designation
Collingbourne Ducis War Memorial, which is situated on Memorial Green, Church 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 the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the conflicts of the C20.
Architectural interest:
* a well-executed wheel-head cross memorial.
Group value:
* with the Grade II*-listed Church of St Andrew and the Grade II-listed Court Farmhouse.
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 Collingbourne Ducis as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the 11 members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War. It was presumably erected not long after the end of the conflict, and was in situ by the Ordnance Survey County Series 25in map published in 1924.
The name of the parishioner who died in the Second World War was subsequently added to the memorial.
Details
First World War memorial with a Second World War addition.
DESCRIPTION: The Collingbourne Ducis war memorial is located on a green at the north side of the main road through the village, immediately opposite the Grade II*-listed Church of St Andrew and the Grade II-listed Court Farmhouse.
It takes the form of a granite wheel-head cross with a tall, tapering, shaft rising from a four-sided, tapering plinth. This surmounts a chamfered, rectangular base. The plinth carries the inscriptions and names in incised lettering, painted black.
The principal inscription is to the east face of the plinth and reads IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN/ FROM THIS PARISH WHO DID/ THEIR DUTY EVEN UNTO DEATH/ ON BEHALF OF/ THEIR KING AND COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918.
The west face of the plinth carries the inscription THESE DIED IN WAR THAT WE/ AT PEACE MIGHT LIVE/ THESE GAVE THEIR BEST SO WE/ OUR BEST SHOULD GIVE/ NOT FOR THEMSELVES/ FOR JUSTICE, FREEDOM, RIGHT/ THEY FOUGHT, AND BID US FORWARD/ TO THE FIGHT/ SEE YE TO IT THAT THESE/ SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN.
The south face of the plinth records the 11 names of those who fell during the First World War, including their rank and regiment.
The dates 1939-1945 have been added to the upper surface of the south face of the plinth along with the name of the one individual from the parish who died in the Second World War.
The memorial stands on a large flagstone set into the ground and the whole is enclosed by a low metal fence.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 12 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/69958
War Memorials Online, accessed 12 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/162418/
Other
OS map 25” (1924 edn)
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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