Thuxton with Garvestone War Memorial

St Margaret's Churchyard, Dereham Road, Garvestone, Norfolk, NR9 4AD

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First World War memorial, 1919. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1464649
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-2019
List Entry Name:: Thuxton with Garvestone War Memorial
Statutory Address:: St Margaret's Churchyard, Dereham Road, Garvestone, Norfolk, NR9 4AD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1464649
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-2019
List Entry Name:: Thuxton with Garvestone War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: St Margaret's Churchyard, Dereham Road, Garvestone, Norfolk, NR9 4AD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: St Margaret's Churchyard, Dereham Road, Garvestone, Norfolk, NR9 4AD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:: Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton
National Grid Reference:: TG0238507388

Summary

First World War memorial, 1919.

Reasons for Designation

The Thuxton with Garvestone 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:

* a robust, well-executed granite cross which is unaltered and continues to reflect the intentions of the communities by whom it was erected.

Group Value:

* with the Grade II* listed Church of St Margaret and a Grade II listed telephone kiosk nearby.

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: memorials, therefore, provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss.

One such memorial was raised at Garvestone as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War. Thuxton with Garvestone’s memorial, like many in Norfolk, is situated at the church.

No records of the erection of the memorial have been found, though it is presumed to have been raised in 1919, as its inscription records. The memorial commemorates eight local servicemen who fell in the First World War and five men who fell in the Second World War.

Details

First World War memorial, erected in approximately 1919. MATERIALS: constructed from granite.

PLAN: located at the entrance to St Margaret’s Churchyard.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial comprises a roughly-hewn Latin cross with an incised head and a tapering shaft, mounted on a simple square plinth and standing on a raised bed. The shaft and plinth, which are finely-hewn, bear the inscriptions in incised and black-painted lettering: IN / THANKFUL / COMMEMORATION / OF THE PEACE 1919 / AND IN GRATEFUL / REMEMBRANCE OF / THESE OUR BROTHERS / OF THUXTON WITH / GARVESTON WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR / RIGHT AND HONOUR / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919 / (NAMES). The plinth reads: ‘1939 – 1945’ followed by the names of the five who died in the conflict.

Sources

Websites
'Thuxton and Garvestone', War Memorials Register, Imperial War Museum, accessed 20 May 2019 from https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/19806
'Thuxton with Garvestone War Memorial', ref WMO0211597, accessed 20 May 2019 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/211597/

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.