Edwinstowe and Clipstone War Memorial
Mansfield Road, Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, NG21 9QA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1463357
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Edwinstowe and Clipstone War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Mansfield Road, Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, NG21 9QA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1463357
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Edwinstowe and Clipstone War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Mansfield Road, Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, NG21 9QA
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:
- Mansfield Road, Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, NG21 9QA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Edwinstowe
- National Grid Reference:
- SK6257966846
Summary
War memorial, designed and executed by Lidster and Bramer of Worksop, unveiled in a ceremony in December 1920, and dedicated to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars.
Reasons for Designation
Edwinstowe and Clipstone War Memorial, designed and executed by Lidster and Bramer of Worksop, unveiled in a ceremony in December 1920, and dedicated to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as a modest but well-executed memorial.
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.
Group value:
* for the strong geographic group value the war memorial holds with nearby listed buildings, including numbers 1, 3 and 5 Church Street (listed at Grade II), and the Church of St Mary (listed at Grade I).
History
The aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918) 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: therefore the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss.
One such memorial was raised at Edwinstowe as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by 28 members of the local community of Edwinstowe and Clipstone who lost their lives in the First World War. The memorial was designed and executed by Lidster and Bramer of Worksop, and unveiled in a ceremony in December 1920. Following the Second World War (1939-1945), the names of 14 members of the local community who lost their lives were added to the war memorial.
Details
War memorial, designed and executed by Lidster and Bramer of Worksop, unveiled in a ceremony in December 1920, and dedicated to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars.
DESCRIPTION: the war memorial is constructed of grey Cornish granite, and takes the form of a Celtic cross with a tapered shaft, on a two-stepped tapered plinth and two-stepped base, surrounded by a square-plan section of stone paving with a stone ball finial to each corner. The front (north-east) elevation of the shaft bears the following painted inscription: TO THE / GLORY OF / GOD / AND IN / PROUD / MEMORY / OF THE MEN / OF / EDWINSTOWE / AND / CLIPSTONE / WHO FELL IN / THE / GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918; and the upper step of the plinth bears the 28 names of the fallen in two columns. The lower step of the plinth bears the following painted inscription: IN PROUD MEMORY OF THE MEN OF EDWINSTOWE / WHO FELL IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR 1939 – 1945; followed by the 14 names of the fallen in two columns. The war memorial stands within a memorial garden at the corner of Church Street and Mansfield Road in Edwinstowe, bounded by a low stone wall and stone piers, and approached from the north-east corner by a double-leaf metal gate and six stone steps.
Sources
Websites
Nottinghamshire County Council, ‘Edwinstowe and Clipstone Cross’, accessed 28 February 2019 from https://secure.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/RollOfHonour/WarMemorials/Details/89
Edwinstowe Historical Society, ‘War memorial – the unveiling ceremony’, accessed 28 February 2019 from https://edwinstowehistory.org.uk/local-history/war-years/war-memorial/
Other
Newark and Sherwood District Council, Survey of Outdoor War Memorials, (November 2018), p94
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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