Upton Cross and Linkinhorne War Memorial

Upton Cross, Liskeard, PL14 5AX

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A First World War memorial cross with additions and alterations of after 1945, placed near to a cross roads. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1453161
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-2018
List Entry Name:: Upton Cross and Linkinhorne War Memorial
Statutory Address:: Upton Cross, Liskeard, PL14 5AX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1453161
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-2018
List Entry Name:: Upton Cross and Linkinhorne War Memorial
Location Description:
Statutory Address 1:: Upton Cross, Liskeard, PL14 5AX

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Upton Cross, Liskeard, PL14 5AX

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Linkinhorne
National Grid Reference:: SX2809672095

Summary

A First World War memorial cross with additions and alterations of after 1945, placed near to a cross roads.

Reasons for Designation

Upton Cross and Linkinhorne 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 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 stepped base and railed enclosure.

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: therefore the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss. One such memorial was raised at Upton Cross, Linkinhorne, 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 date from the period about 1920 with additions and alterations after 1945. It stands near to the cross roads at the centre of this Cornish mining community.

Details

A First World War memorial cross with additions and alterations of after 1945, placed near to a cross roads.

MATERIALS and PLAN: of rock-hewn stone, set in a rectangular enclosure of railings. The monument takes the form of a Celtic cross with wheel head and tapered shaft with a stepped, rectangular base and a plinth.

The monument faces south and has moulded arms and a tapered shaft with Celtic knot panels in relief. At the centre of the wheel head cross is a boss. The stepped plinth is inscribed; to the riser of the top step: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD / IN REVERED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF LINKINHORNE. / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR, / 1914 – 1919. / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS. THAT A MAN / LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.’ Names are recorded on the step below. In front of the lowest step a granite tablet which takes the form of a rolled scroll reads: ‘ALSO OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE / WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945’. Names are recorded below. The plinth forms a rectangular enclosure with railings supported by chamfered curb stones.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 31 January 2018.

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 31 January 2018 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/238157

Legal

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