Eckington War Memorial
Junction of Church Street (B4080), New Road and Brakes Bridge Road, Eckington, Worcestershire, WR10 3AN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1460199
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Eckington War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Junction of Church Street (B4080), New Road and Brakes Bridge Road, Eckington, Worcestershire, WR10 3AN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1460199
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Eckington War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Junction of Church Street (B4080), New Road and Brakes Bridge Road, Eckington, Worcestershire, WR10 3AN
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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:
- Junction of Church Street (B4080), New Road and Brakes Bridge Road, Eckington, Worcestershire, WR10 3AN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eckington
- National Grid Reference:
- SO9217241505
Summary
First World War memorial, 1920, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Eckington War Memorial, which stands at the junction of Church Street (B4080), New Road and Drakes Bridges Road, 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 local community, and the sacrifices it has made in the conflicts of the C20.
Architectural interest:
* as an interesting and unusual example of an irregular monolithic memorial.
Group value:
* with the village cross (Grade II).
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 which meant that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss.
One such memorial was raised at Eckington 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 was unveiled on Sunday 18 April 1920 by the rector, Canon Ismay. When the memorial was erected, iron railings were installed around the perimeter of the triangle of grass upon which it stands and tropical shrubs were planted within the railings but these are no longer present. A cast iron statue of a lion in the grassed area may have come from nearby Bells Castle at Kemerton as another one is situated above a doorway there.
In November 1947 subscriptions were invited to add the names of five parishioners who fell during the Second World War. This work was carried out by John Bulford, a resident of Eckington.
Details
First World War memorial, 1920, with later additions for the Second World War.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands in a prominent position on a small triangle of grass at the junction of Church Street (B4080), New Road and Drakes Bridges Road, close to the village cross (Grade II). The memorial comprises an irregular carved stone monolith with a smoothed inscribed panel set on a rectangular concrete base.
The main inscription reads: IN GRATEFUL AND LOVING REMEMBRANCE/ OF THE UNRETURNING BRAVE OF THIS PARISH/ 1914 – 1919/ (21 NAMES)/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"/ 1939 – 1945/ (5 NAMES).
Sources
Websites
War Memorial Register, accessed 6 November 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/32359
War Memorials Online, accessed 6 November 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/232605/
Wilkes, N, 2014, 'Lest We Forget: A Record of those Eckington Servicemen who served and those who died in the First and Second World Wars', accessed 6 November 2017 from http://www.eckington.info/history/warprofiles.pdf
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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