Monk Sherborne War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1462471
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Monk Sherborne War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1462471
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Monk Sherborne War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Junction of Salters Heath Road and Monk Sherborne Road, Monk Sherborne, Hampshire (NGR: S6091856074)
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Monk Sherborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SU6091856073
Summary
First World War memorial, unveiled in 1923. The designer is not currently known. The names of the fallen of the Second World War were subsequently added.
Reasons for Designation
Monk Sherborne War Memorial, Monk Sherborne, Hampshire 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-executed example of one of the common forms of First World War memorial.
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.
Monk Sherborne War Memorial was unveiled in June 1923 by Reverend Geoffrey Harold Woolley VC (1892-1968) who had been the first Territorial soldier to receive a Victoria Cross, for his bravery at the Battle of Ypres (20-21 April 1915). Additional names were added after the Second World War. In 2002 a metal fence was erected round the memorial to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
Details
First World War memorial, unveiled in 1923. The designer is not currently known. The names of the fallen of the Second World War were subsequently added.
MATERIALS: Portland stone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial is located on a traffic island at the junction of Salters Heath Road and Monk Sherborne Road. It consists of a wheel cross with Celtic knot decoration on a tapering rectangular shaft with a moulded capital. This is mounted on a tapering plinth set on an octagonal base. A carved scroll at the top of the shaft bears the legend ‘IN MEMORIAM’ in relief. The front face of the plinth bears the inscription ‘GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS’. The names of the fallen are inscribed on the shaft with the eight names from the First World War followed by the date 1939-1945 and the four names from the Second World War.
The memorial is surrounded by a low metal fence* with gilded pineapple finials to the corner posts, installed in 2002.
* Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the metal fence is not of special architectural or historic interest.
Sources
Websites
Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register: 21199 - Monk Sherborne Memorial Wheel Cross, accessed 15 January 2019 from https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/21199
War Memorials Online: 132612 - Monk Sherborne War Memorial, accessed 15 January 2019 from www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/132612
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
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