St Martins War Memorial
Overton Road, St Martins, Shropshire, SY11 3AY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1462112
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-2019
- List Entry Name:
- St Martins War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Overton Road, St Martins, Shropshire, SY11 3AY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1462112
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-2019
- List Entry Name:
- St Martins War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Overton Road, St Martins, Shropshire, SY11 3AY
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:
- Overton Road, St Martins, Shropshire, SY11 3AY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Martin's
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3235736820
Summary
First World War memorial, unveiled 1923, with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
St Martins War Memorial 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 well-composed memorial with good quality decorative detailing, which survives unaltered.
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 the official policy of not repatriating the dead, meaning that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss. One such memorial was raised at St Martins as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War.
St Martins War Memorial, built by Mr Lewis, was unveiled on 25 February by Brigadier General JV Campbell and dedicated by local clergy. It records the names of the 41 parishioners killed in the conflict, including, unusually, a woman: Sister Euginie Teggin.
Following the Second World War the names of the fallen from that conflict were added to the memorial. In 1995 a marble tablet commemorating the 50th anniversary of Victory in Europe and Victory in Japan days was added to the memorial.
Details
First World War memorial, unveiled 1923, with later additions for the Second World War.
PLAN: the memorial stands on the north side of Overton Road within a square enclosure.
MATERIALS: it is constructed from red sandstone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial takes the form of a stone Celtic cross with knotwork design on the cross head, with a tapered shaft and plinth, and a two-stepped base.
The south face of the shaft is recessed and bears an incised inscription which reads ‘ERECTED / IN / GRATEFUL / MEMORY / OF THE MEN / OF / ST MARTINS / WHO / LAID DOWN / THEIR LIVES / IN THE / GREAT / WAR’. The foot of the cross shaft is incised 1914-1919. The south face of the plinth is recessed and lists the names of the 41 fallen from the First World War. Part of the south face of the top step of the base is cut at an angle and reads ‘1939 – 1945 / (7 NAMES). Below is the inscription ‘SEE TO IT THAT THEY SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN’. A black marble tablet reading ‘IN COMMEMORATION OF THE / 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF / VE AND VJ DAY / 1945 – 1995 / ST MARTINS PARISH COUNCIL’ abuts the south face of the upper step of the base.
The memorial stands on a concrete platform enclosed by modern metal railings.
Sources
Websites
'St Martin's Parisioners' (ref WMO227075), War Memorials Online, accessed 18/12/2018 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/227075
St Martins Parishioners, accessed 18/12/2018 from https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/13821
Shropshire Historic Environment Record, St Martins War Memorial, ref 31392, accessed 06/03/2019 from http://search.shropshirehistory.org.uk/collections/getrecord/CCS_MSA34264/
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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