Garboldisham War Memorial
Church Road, junction of Manor Road, Garboldisham, Norfolk, IP22 2SE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1455241
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Garboldisham War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Church Road, junction of Manor Road, Garboldisham, Norfolk, IP22 2SE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1455241
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Garboldisham War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church Road, junction of Manor Road, Garboldisham, Norfolk, IP22 2SE
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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.
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:
- Church Road, junction of Manor Road, Garboldisham, Norfolk, IP22 2SE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Garboldisham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0058881588
Summary
First World War memorial, erected about 1920, with Second World War additions.
Reasons for Designation
Garboldisham 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 impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the conflicts of the C20.
Architectural interest:
* as a detailed and well-executed stone wheel-head cross with wheel pierced by a carving of St George and the Dragon.
Group value:
* with the Grade II listed Fox Inn.
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 erected in Garboldisham in about 1920 as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by 18 local servicemen who fell in the First World War. Following the Second World War the names of two local servicemen who died in that conflict were added to the memorial. The name A C Atkins was added to the memorial in 2014 as part of a funded community project. This project, headed by the Parish Council was awarded £500, which went towards cleaning the memorial, adding a name to it, and adding to the walls of the enclosure an incised tablet that read “Renovated in 2014/ by the/ community of Garboldisham/ to commemorate/ the great war 1914 – 1918.”
Details
First World War memorial erected about 1920 with Second World War additions.
Materials: stone, brick and flint
Description: Garboldisham War Memorial is prominently located in a roadside gated enclosure at the junction of Church Road and Manor Road. It comprises a hollow wheel head stone cross pattée pierced with a carving of St George and the Dragon on a tapering octagonal shaft terminating in a moulded foot with shields carved on its four faces. Beneath is a plinth with four projecting faces bearing applied inscription tablets with apexes. The whole stands on a two-stepped square base within an enclosure bound by a brick and flint wall to the back and sides, and metal railings with an access gate to the front. The enclosure is cobbled with flint paving. The plinth bears the incised and painted inscriptions on applied stone tablets.
The incised lettering of the inscription on the front face of the plinth reads: MCMXIV/ MCMXIX// PRAISE GOD/ FOR THESE MEN OF/ GALBOLDISHAM/ FOR THEY/ LOVED LIBERTY/ MORE THAN LIFE/ & WERE FAITHFUL/ UNTO DEATH//
The names of the fallen appear on the other three faces of the plinth with the rear face bearing the Second World War addition which reads: 1939 – 1945/ (NAMES)
Sources
Websites
Imperial War Museum Inventory, accessed 1st March 2018 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/19795
War Memorials Online, accessed 1st March 2018 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/182852/
Watton and Swaffham Times, 04 July 2014, accessed 1st March 2018 from http://www.wattonandswaffhamtimes.co.uk/news/grants_awarded_to_12_breckland_projects_commemorating_the_first_world_war_1_3669425
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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