Sutcombe War Memorial
The Square, Sutcombe, Devon, EX22 7PR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1465645
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Sutcombe War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- The Square, Sutcombe, Devon, EX22 7PR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1465645
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Sutcombe War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Square, Sutcombe, Devon, EX22 7PR
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:
- The Square, Sutcombe, Devon, EX22 7PR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sutcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS3465011690
Summary
War memorial, erected in 1921.
Reasons for Designation
Sutcombe War Memorial is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as a well-executed example of a Latin cross type 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:
* with Morice Terrace (Grade II) and the Church of St Andrew (Grade II*).
History
The great age of memorial building was in the aftermath of the First World War which 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.
Sutcombe War Memorial, paid for by public subscription, was sculpted by JT Miller of Okehampton. It was unveiled on Friday 11 November 1921 by Commander Charles Williams, MP and commemorates those members of the local community who died during the First World War.
The names of five parishioners who died during the Second World War were subsequently added to the memorial.
Details
War memorial, erected in 1921.
MATERIALS: carved from Dartmoor granite with lead lettering inscriptions
DESCRIPTION: standing in a prominent location at the road junction in the centre of Sutcombe, the memorial comprises a Latin cross standing on a roughly-hewn three-stepped plinth and a square base and platform. The south face of the base is sloped.
The inscription on the south face of the top step reads:
IN MEMORY OF THE MEN / CONNECTED WITH THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914-1918
To the south face of the middle step are recorded the six names of the men who died in the First World War.
On the south face of the bottom step the inscription continues:
“GOD GRANT REFRESHMENT, LIGHT, ETERNAL REST / YOURS BE THE GREAT REWARD WHO PAID THE PRICE / ON US THE BURNING QUESTION BE IMPRESSED / SHALL WE PROVE WORTHY OF THE SACRIFICE?”
An additional inscription on the sloping face of the base reads:
WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945 / (NAMES)
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the memorial is bounded by four granite posts with pyramidal caps.
Sources
Websites
Sutcombe War Memorial, accessed 9 July 2019 from https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2913
Other
‘The Honoured Dead. Memorial unveiled at Sutcombe on Friday afternoon’, Western Times, Friday 18 November 1921
‘Sutcombe’s Cross’, Western Morning News, Saturday 19 November 1921
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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