Tunstead War Memorial

St Mary's Churchyard, Church Lane, Tunstead, Norfolk, NR12 8HT

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Overview

First World War memorial, erected c1920. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1453988
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-2018
List Entry Name:: Tunstead War Memorial
Statutory Address:: St Mary's Churchyard, Church Lane, Tunstead, Norfolk, NR12 8HT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1453988
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-2018
List Entry Name:: Tunstead War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: St Mary's Churchyard, Church Lane, Tunstead, Norfolk, NR12 8HT

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:: St Mary's Churchyard, Church Lane, Tunstead, Norfolk, NR12 8HT

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Tunstead
National Grid Reference:: TG3084122681

Summary

First World War memorial, erected c1920.

Reasons for Designation

Tunstead War Memorial, erected around 1920, 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 a major conflict 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 Mary (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 Mary (listed Grade I), Tunstead, as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by 16 local servicemen.

Details

First World War memorial, erected c1920.

MATERIALS: of granite.

DESCRIPTION: the war memorial stands in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary (listed Grade I), prominently sited by the churchyard wall facing Church Lane. It comprises a granite wheel-head cross on a trapezoidal plinth with a moulded cap, below which is a single-step stone base. The whole structure stands on a concrete foundation.

The plinth bears the dedicatory inscription in leaded lettering and reads ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN EVER / GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN OF / TUNSTEAD WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918 / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE / [NAMES]’.

Sources

Websites
Information on Tunstead War Memorial from the Imperial War Museum’s War Memorials Register, accessed 17 January 2018 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/56353

Legal

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