Snarestone War Memorial
Memorial Garden, Main Street, Snarestone, Leicestershire, DE12 7DB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1465198
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Snarestone War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Memorial Garden, Main Street, Snarestone, Leicestershire, DE12 7DB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1465198
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Snarestone War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Memorial Garden, Main Street, Snarestone, Leicestershire, DE12 7DB
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:
- Memorial Garden, Main Street, Snarestone, Leicestershire, DE12 7DB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Snarestone
- National Grid Reference:
- SK3458609334
Summary
A First World War memorial unveiled in 1922.
Reasons for Designation
The war memorial in Snarestone is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* It is a dignified and sombre stone cross, neatly made and well-proportioned.
Historic interest:
* As an eloquent witness to the tragic impact on the local community of the events of the First World War.
History
Snarestone war memorial was erected after the First World War, as part of the great wave of commemoration of the sacrifice made by the fallen from communities across the country.
The memorial was erected within a memorial garden that was created off Main Street. It was designed and erected by Messrs Wells and Company, monumental masons of nearby Hugglesctoe, at a cost of £75. The grounds were laid out by Messrs G Hart, of Measham.
The memorial commemorates seven local servicemen who fell in the First World War, and was unveiled on Sunday 26 February 1922 by Colonel German DSO.
Details
A First World War memorial unveiled in 1922.
MATERIALS: the memorial is constructed from Cornish granite.
DESCRIPTION: the war memorial is located in a long, narrow memorial garden which is accessed off the south side of Main Street. The memorial itself stands at the southern end of the garden, at the head of the central path.
The memorial is a rough-hewn wheel cross which stands around 3m tall, on a plinth with rounded upper corner and a flat front face with recessed inscription panel, all on a three-stepped concrete base. The plinth bears the inscriptions in incised and blacked lettering.
The inscription reads: TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING/ MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ (NAMES)/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE. In front of the memorial is a single step with an inscription which reads: A PLACE OF REMEMBRANCE.
Sources
Websites
Imperial War Museum Inventory, accessed 17 June 2019 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14842
Leicestershire County Council’s Leicestershire & Rutland War Memorials Project website, accessed 17 June 2019 from http://www.leicestershirewarmemorials.co.uk/war/memorials/view/1052
Other
Coalville Times, Friday 10 March 1922, p8, ‘Snarestone.’
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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