Tugby and Keythorpe War Memorial

St Thomas a Becket Churchyard, Main Street, Tugby, Leicestershire, LE7 9WD

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Overview

First World War memorial cross, approximately 1920. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1464666
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-2019
List Entry Name:: Tugby and Keythorpe War Memorial
Statutory Address:: St Thomas a Becket Churchyard, Main Street, Tugby, Leicestershire, LE7 9WD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1464666
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-2019
List Entry Name:: Tugby and Keythorpe War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: St Thomas a Becket Churchyard, Main Street, Tugby, Leicestershire, LE7 9WD

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 Thomas a Becket Churchyard, Main Street, Tugby, Leicestershire, LE7 9WD

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Tugby and Keythorpe
National Grid Reference:: SK7619300985

Summary

First World War memorial cross, approximately 1920.

Reasons for Designation

Tugby and Keythorpe War Memorial, erected in around 1920, 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 simple, well-executed and unaltered stone wheel cross.

Group Value:

* with the Grade II* listed Church of St Thomas a Becket.

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

Details of the erection of the Tugby and Keythorpe War Memorial have not been found, though it is presumed to have been paid for by public subscription, and probably dates from the period immediately following the end of the war. It commemorates the eight local servicemen who fell in the conflict. Historic photographs suggest that the incised inscription was originally infilled, and painted black.

Details

First World War memorial cross, approximately 1920.

MATERIALS: constructed from limestone.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial is located at the entrance to St Thomas a Becket Churchyard. It comprises a wheel-head cross on a two-tiered rusticated tapering plinth upon on a single-stepped base. The finely-hewn faces of the plinth bear the incised inscriptions ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING / MEN FROM THIS PARISH WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918’, with the names of the eight fallen soldiers on the bottom tier, followed by ‘THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE’.

Sources

Websites
Memorial Cross, St Thomas a Becket Churchyard - Tugby, Leicestershire War Memorials Project, accessed 21/05/2019 from http://www.leicestershirewarmemorials.co.uk/war/memorials/view/1188
Tugby and Keythorpe - WWI Cross, War Memorials Register, Imperial War Museum, accessed 21/05/2019 from https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/55073

Legal

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