Winterton-on-Sea War Memorial
Holy Trinity and All Saints Churchyard, Black Street, Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, NR29 4DB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1453989
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Winterton-on-Sea War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Holy Trinity and All Saints Churchyard, Black Street, Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, NR29 4DB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1453989
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Winterton-on-Sea War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Holy Trinity and All Saints Churchyard, Black Street, Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, NR29 4DB
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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:
- Holy Trinity and All Saints Churchyard, Black Street, Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, NR29 4DB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterton-on-Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- TG4911619444
Summary
First World War memorial, unveiled and dedicated in 1919.
Reasons for Designation
Winterton-on-Sea War Memorial, erected in 1919, 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 conflict of the First World War.
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 Holy Trinity and All Saints (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 the Norfolk parish of Winterton-on-Sea on 5 July 1919 as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by 18 local service men. It was erected in the churchyard to Church of Holy Trinity and All Saints (listed Grade I), being unveiled by Mrs R Acland and dedicated by the Rector, Reverend WA Green.
Details
First World War memorial, unveiled and dedicated in 1919.
MATERIALS: of Cornish granite.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands in the churchyard to the Church of the Holy Trinity and All Saints (listed Grade I), c3.6m to the south of the church's south porch. It comprises a Celtic wheel-head cross with a tall shaft that rises and tapers in rectangular section from a trapezoidal plinth with polished surfaces for the leaded inscriptions. It stands on a single-step base of granite, below which is a two-stepped concrete sub base.
The dedicatory inscription is on the plinth's west face and reads ‘THIS MEMORIAL / WAS ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE MEN / OF THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918’. The south face records the names of 12 local servicemen who died while the north face records a further six names.
Sources
Websites
Information on Winterton-on-Sea War Memorial from the Imperial War Museum’s War Memorials Register, accessed 17 January 2018 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/19942
Information in Winterton-on-Sea War Memorial from the War Memorials Online website, accessed 17 January 2018 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/250170/
Information on Winterton-on-Sea War Memorial from the Roll of Honour website, accessed 17 January 2018 from http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Winterton.html
Other
Yarmouth Independent, 12 July 1919, p8
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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