Ashperton War Memorial
Ashperton War Memorial, The Green, A417, Ashperton, Ledbury, HR8 2RY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1461875
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Ashperton War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Ashperton War Memorial, The Green, A417, Ashperton, Ledbury, HR8 2RY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1461875
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Ashperton War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ashperton War Memorial, The Green, A417, Ashperton, Ledbury, HR8 2RY
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.
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:
- Ashperton War Memorial, The Green, A417, Ashperton, Ledbury, HR8 2RY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashperton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO6438341838
Summary
War memorial, erected in around 1920.
Reasons for Designation
Ashperton War Memorial is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* for its compositional design as an accomplished and well-realised Latin cross.
Historic interest:
* as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the First and Second World Wars.
Group value:
* with four Grade II-listed C17 and C18 timber-framed houses that are within close proximity to the war memorial.
History
The great age of memorial building was in the aftermath of the First World War 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.
Ashperton War Memorial was erected in about 1920 and commemorates 28 local servicemen from the parishes of Ashperton, Canon Frome and Stretton-Grandison and Eggleton who died during the First World War. Additional stone plaques have been added to commemorate the five men from these parishes who died during the Second World War.
Details
War memorial, erected in around 1920.
MATERIALS: constructed of granite. The inscriptions are of metal lettering.
DESCRIPTION: located on the village green the war memorial comprises a three-stepped, octagonal base surmounted by an octagonal Latin cross with broach stops to the base of the shaft. The arms of the cross are slightly splayed.
To the south-west face of the top two steps is the inscription THE GREAT WAR / 1914–1919.
The top step of each of the other three sides is inscribed with the name of the parish ASHPERTON, CANON-FFROME or STRETTON-GRANDISON AND EGGLETON. Beneath are the names of the men from each parish who died during the First World War.
A stone plaque has been added to the bottom step of these three sides with the dates 1939-45 and the names of the men from each parish who died during the Second World War.
Sources
Websites
Ashperton Memorial Cross, accessed 3 December 2018 from https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/32561
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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