Romiley War Memorial

Junction of Stockport Road and Green Lane, Romiley, Stockport

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

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1452821
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-2018
List Entry Name:: Romiley War Memorial
Statutory Address:: Junction of Stockport Road and Green Lane, Romiley, Stockport

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1452821
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-2018
List Entry Name:: Romiley War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: Junction of Stockport Road and Green Lane, Romiley, Stockport

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:: Junction of Stockport Road and Green Lane, Romiley, Stockport

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

District:: Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ9369790723

Summary

First World War memorial.

Reasons for Designation

Romiley War Memorial, which is situated on a traffic island at the junction of Stockport Road and Green Lane, 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 First World War.

Architectural interest:

* as a well-executed Latin cross memorial.

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 Romiley as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the 65 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 1934. The stonemason was Messrs Willoughby Wilde and Sons of Hyde, who built a number of other war memorials in the Greater Manchester area including the Grade II-listed Victoria Street War Memorial, Newton and Godley Hill War Memorial.

Details

First World War memorial.

MATERIALS: red sandstone, granite plaques.

DESCRIPTION: Romiley War Memorial is located on a traffic island within a raised grassed area at the junction of Stockport Road and Green Lane.

It takes the form of a tall, red sandstone Latin cross with the monogram IHS carved in relief to an inset circular panel at the centre of the north face of the cross-head. To the base of the north face of the cross shaft are the dates 1914 – 1919, carved in relief to an inset panel. The cross rises from a tapering, four-sided plinth with a moulded cap. This surmounts a square base.

The names of the 65 servicemen who died are recorded on a plaque of polished, grey granite affixed to the north face of the plinth. Directly below, affixed to the base, is a smaller polished, grey granite plaque with the dedication, “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT HE/ LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.” The names and dedication are in raised, leaded lettering.

The whole stands on a coursed-stone platform with ashlar quoins which breaks forward from the sloping ground.

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 28 November 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/156197
War Memorials Register, accessed 28 November 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/3183
Other
OS Map 25” (1934 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.