Wylye War Memorial

St Mary's Churchyard, Church Street, Wylye, Salisbury, Wiltshire, BA12 0QZ

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First World War memorial with Second World War additions. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1451934
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-2018
List Entry Name:: Wylye War Memorial
Statutory Address:: St Mary's Churchyard, Church Street, Wylye, Salisbury, Wiltshire, BA12 0QZ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1451934
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-2018
List Entry Name:: Wylye War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: St Mary's Churchyard, Church Street, Wylye, Salisbury, Wiltshire, BA12 0QZ

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:: St Mary's Churchyard, Church Street, Wylye, Salisbury, Wiltshire, BA12 0QZ

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wylye
National Grid Reference:: SU0078737722

Summary

First World War memorial with Second World War additions.

Reasons for Designation

Wylye War Memorial, which is situated in St Mary’s churchyard, 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;

* the list of names on the memorial is unusual as it includes the name of a female casualty, Ivy Hibberd, a member of the Women’s Royal Air Force who died of pneumonia five days before the Armistice.

Architectural interest:

* a well-executed wheel-head cross memorial.

Group value:

* with the Grade II*-listed Church of St Mary and the Grade II-listed churchyard monuments and Railed Enclosure and Gate Piers on South Edge of Churchyard.

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 Wylye as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the seven members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War. One of those remembered is Ivy Hibberd, a member of the Women’s Royal Air Force who died of pneumonia on 6 November 1918, aged 19.

The memorial was presumably erected not long after the end of the First World War, and was in situ by the Ordnance Survey County Series 25in map published in 1924.

The names of the two parishioners who died in the Second World War were subsequently added to the memorial.

Details

First World War memorial with Second World War additions.

DESCRIPTION: Wylye War Memorial is located in the churchyard to the west of the Church of St Mary (Grade II*-listed), and adjacent to the main path leading to the church. The churchyard also contains numerous Grade II-listed monuments and the Grade II-listed Railed Enclosure and Gate Piers on South Edge of Churchyard.

The war memorial takes the form of a granite wheel-head cross upon a tall shaft with moulded foot. This rises from a tapering, four-sided plinth, which surmounts a square base. The plinth carries the inscriptions and names in leaded lettering.

The main inscription is on the west (front) face of the plinth and reads THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED/ BY THE PARISHIONERS OF WYLYE,/ IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE CAUSE OF THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ (7 NAMES). On the east (rear) of the plinth is the following inscription 1939 – 1945/ (2 NAMES).

Sources

Websites
‘Hibberd, Ivy Pretoria May’, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/407073/hibberd,-ivy-pretoria-may/
‘Ivy Pretoria May Hibberd’, Find a Grave, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Hibberd&GSiman=1&GSst=4249&GSob=c&GRid=90754423&
Sedgwick, C, Wylye War Memorial St Mary’s Churchyard (2015), accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Wylye/Wylye%20-%20War%20Memorial.pdf
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/197440
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/70135
Other
OS map 25” (1924 edn)

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