Strumpshaw War Memorial

St Peter's Churchyard, Norwich Road, Strumpshaw, Norfolk, NR13 4NR

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Overview

First World War Memorial, erected c1920, with Second World War additions. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1453986
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-2018
List Entry Name:: Strumpshaw War Memorial
Statutory Address:: St Peter's Churchyard, Norwich Road, Strumpshaw, Norfolk, NR13 4NR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1453986
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-2018
List Entry Name:: Strumpshaw War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: St Peter's Churchyard, Norwich Road, Strumpshaw, Norfolk, NR13 4NR

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: St Peter's Churchyard, Norwich Road, Strumpshaw, Norfolk, NR13 4NR

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Broadland (District Authority)
Parish:: Strumpshaw
National Grid Reference:: TG3490807731

Summary

First World War Memorial, erected c1920, with Second World War additions.

Reasons for Designation

Strumpshaw War Memorial, erected around 1920, with Second World War additions, 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 sacrifices it made in the conflicts of the C20.

Architectural interest:

* as an accomplished and well-realised war memorial which takes the form of a Celtic wheel-head cross atop a trapezoidal plinth.

Group value:

* with the neighbouring Church of St Peter (listed Grade I).

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 in around 1920 in the churchyard to the Church of St Peter (listed Grade I), Strumpshaw, as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by 15 local servicemen.

Following the Second World War a rectangular-shaped tablet with the names of four local servicemen who died in that conflict was placed at the foot of the memorial.

Details

First World War Memorial, erected c1920, with Second World War additions.

MATERIALS: of rock-faced granite.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands in the churchyard to the Church of St Peter (listed Grade I), c3.6m to the north-west of church's north porch. It comprises a rock-faced Celtic wheel-head cross embellished with a relief carving of the Sword of Sacrifice on its principal north face. It stands on a trapezoidal plinth which is located on a single-step stone base. Following the Second World War a small granite tablet was placed at the foot of the memorial to commemorate the local men who died in that conflict.

The First World War dedication is in leaded lettering on a dressed surface of the plinth's north face and reads: 'IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE/ FROM THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR THEIR GOD AND COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 18/ (NAMES)/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE’. The Second World dedication is on a separate rectangular-shaped tablet at the foot of the plinth and reads ‘1939 – 45/ [NAMES]’.

Sources

Websites
Information on Strumpshaw War Memorial from the Roll of Honour website, accessed 17 January 2018 from http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Strumpshaw.html

Legal

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