Southam and Cleeve Hill War Memorial
School Lane, Southam, Gloucestershire, GL52 3NN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1452248
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Southam and Cleeve Hill War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- School Lane, Southam, Gloucestershire, GL52 3NN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1452248
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Southam and Cleeve Hill War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- School Lane, Southam, Gloucestershire, GL52 3NN
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:
- School Lane, Southam, Gloucestershire, GL52 3NN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Tewkesbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southam
- National Grid Reference:
- SO9727725642
Summary
A First World War memorial, designed by Healing and Overbury architects of Cheltenham, built in 1920 with alterations made after the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Southam and Cleeve Hill war memorial 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:
* For its design, a well-executed stone cross, by known local architects Healing and Overbury, and made by HH Martyn and Co.
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 750,000 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 Southam, as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local communities of Southam and Cleeve Hill who lost their lives in the First World War.
The memorial was erected in May 1920 in a prominent location on a triangular green at a crossroads within the village. It was designed by Messrs Healing and Overbury, who were also responsible for the Grade II Listed Northleach War Memorial, and was built at a cost of £150 by Messrs H H Martyn and Co, Cheltenham, specialist designers and manufacturers of ecclesiastical sculptures and furnishings. The ceremony of dedication was performed by Canon Morgan–Brown. The memorial commemorates 15 local servicemen who died during the First World War. Following the Second World War, a dedication was added to commemorate the one man who fell in that conflict.
In 2005 the memorial was conserved with the help of grant aid from the War Memorials Trust.
Details
A First World War memorial, designed by Healing and Overbury architects of Cheltenham, built in 1920 with alterations made after the Second World War.
MATERIALS: local limestone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial consists of a plain wheel-headed cross on a tapering square shaft. The shaft rises from a square plinth on a three-stepped octagonal base.
INSCRIPTION: The dedication is inscribed on the plinth. The front face reads: IN GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN/ OF SOUTHAM AND CLEEVE HILL WHO/ FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919/ 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES). Two further faces are inscribed, the first with: IS IT/ NOTHING TO YOU/ ALL YE THAT/ PASS BY and the second with: GREATER LOVE/ HATH NO MAN/ THAN THIS, THAT/ A MAN LAY DOWN/ HIS LIFE FOR/ HIS FRIENDS.
Sources
Websites
Imperial War Museum Register, accessed 6 November 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20872
War Memorials Trust Online, accessed 6 November 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/103189/
Other
‘Memorial Cross at Southam: The Dedication’, Gloucestershire Echo, (17 May 1920), p.3
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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