Pict's Cross War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1464333
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Pict's Cross War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1464333
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Pict's Cross War Memorial
- Location Description:
- South-west corner of the cross roads at Pict's Cross, Sellack, Herefordshire
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.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sellack
- National Grid Reference:
- SO5606626697
Summary
War memorial, erected in around 1920.
Reasons for Designation
Pict’s Cross War Memorial is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* for its robust and striking design.
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 War.
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.
Pict’s Cross War Memorial was erected in about 1920 and commemorates the men of the parish who died during the First World War. The names of the three parishioners who died during the Second World War were subsequently added.
Details
War memorial, erected in around 1920.
MATERIALS: constructed of granite. The inscriptions are of incised lettering, painted black.
DESCRIPTION: located on the south-west corner of the cross roads at Pict’s Cross the war memorial comprises a large, roughly hewn, cross with splayed arms. The cross surmounts a tapered square shaft and stands on a tapered pedestal.
To the base of the north-east face of the shaft is a recessed panel with the inscription:
FOR / GOD, KING / AND / COUNTRY / 1914 -1918
The names of the 15 men who died in the First World War are recorded on a recessed panel to the dado of the pedestal.
The central section of the north-east face of the plinth has been cut away to form a sloped panel with the inscription:
1939 – 1945 / (NAMES) / - SELLACK -
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the war memorial is approached via two stone steps and is enclosed on three sides by a snecked stone wall with two rows of upright coping stones. The side walls slope down towards the road. To each side of the north-east face of the war memorial, set at an angle, is a chamfered stone.
Sources
Websites
Pict's Cross War Memorial, accessed 3 May 2019 from https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/32998
Pict's Cross, accessed 3 May 2019 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/147868/
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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