Hollybush War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1452154
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Hollybush War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1452154
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Hollybush War Memorial
- Location Description:
- All Saints Churchyard, Hollybush, Worcestershire, HR8 1EX
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Castlemorton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO7686336702
Summary
A village war memorial dated to about 1920, of textured granite with inlaid lead lettering. The cross has a stylised head with base and stepped plinth.
Reasons for Designation
Hollybush War Memorial is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Historic interest:
* as an eloquent witness to the tragic impacts of world events on this community, and the sacrifice it has made in the First World War.
Architectural interest:
* as an accomplished and well-realised war memorial, which takes the form of a granite cross on a tapered shaft with base and stepped plinth.
Group value:
* the cross forms a group with the Church of All Saints, Hollybush.
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 Hollybush, 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 memorial appears to have been erected about 1920.
Details
A village war memorial dated to about 1920.
MATERIALS: textured granite with inlaid lead lettering.
DESCRIPTION: the cross has a stylised head with base and stepped plinth. The memorial faces east and has a tapered shaft and square arms which stand proud in front of a stylised wheel head. The tapered base is inscribed THIS CROSS IS ERECTED TO / THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN / LOVING GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE FOLLOWING HOLLYBUSH MEN / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR / COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918. (NAMES). Below the names of the fallen is inscribed THE KING OF THE WORLD SHALL RAISE US UP / WHO HAVE DIED FOR HIS LAWS UNTO EVER- / LASTING LIFE. The other faces are blank. Below the base is a plinth of two steps.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 November 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/197966/
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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