Great Comberton War Memorial
Church Street, Great Comberton, Pershore, Worcestershire, WR10 3DU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1461877
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Great Comberton War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Church Street, Great Comberton, Pershore, Worcestershire, WR10 3DU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1461877
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Great Comberton War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church Street, Great Comberton, Pershore, Worcestershire, WR10 3DU
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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 Street, Great Comberton, Pershore, Worcestershire, WR10 3DU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Comberton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO9565842553
Summary
War memorial, erected in about 1920.
Reasons for Designation
Great Comberton War Memorial is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* it is an accomplished and well-realised example of a Latin cross war memorial which displays good decorative detailing.
Historic interest:
* it has strong cultural and historical significance within both a local and national context as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the First World War.
History
The aftermath of the First World War saw an unprecedented wave of public commemoration 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.
On such memorial was raised at Great Comberton, 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 erected in about 1920.
Details
War memorial, erected in about 1920.
MATERIALS: carved from stone.
DESCRIPTION: located at a road junction, at the northern end of the village, the war memorial takes the form of a Latin cross with a tapering octagonal shaft with broach stops to its base. At the centre of the cross is a relief-carving of the Christian symbol of a pelican plucking its breast to feed its young. The pedestal on which the Latin cross is surmounted comprises a large square plinth and a tapered dado with carved decoration to the top. On the south-east face of the plinth is the carved inscription:
TO THE/ GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918. / (5 NAMES)
The whole stands on a stone platform.
Sources
Websites
Great Comberton, accessed 3 December 2018 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/32424
Other
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, 'Great Comberton War Memorial', HER No: WSM66773
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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