Lubenham War Memorial
Main Street, Lubenham, Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 9TD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1467643
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-2021
- List Entry Name:
- Lubenham War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Main Street, Lubenham, Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 9TD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1467643
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-2021
- List Entry Name:
- Lubenham War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Main Street, Lubenham, Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 9TD
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:
- Main Street, Lubenham, Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 9TD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lubenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP7062687395
Summary
A First World War memorial, erected in 1920; further names added after the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Lubenham 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 village’s community, and the sacrifice it made in the conflicts of the C20.
Architectural interest:
* for its design, including a well-carved column and sundial.
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.
The memorial, commemorating the 16 men of the parish who died in the First World War, was commissioned by the local war memorial committee, chaired by Mr Gordon Cunard, and unveiled on 24 April 1920 by Lieut-Col Hon G Stanley, GCMG, MP.
After the Second World War, a further inscription was added in memory of those 7 servicemen who lost their lives in that conflict.
Details
A First World War memorial, erected in 1920; further names added after the Second World War.
MATERIALS: stone, with metal for the gnomon of the sundial.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial, which rises to a height of about 4m, consists of a tall, slightly tapering square-section column with chamfers and stops, and a projecting square head, with a sundial to the front face. Above the head is a finial formed from three orbs. The shaft stands directly on the topmost step of a seven-stepped platform. The front faces of the steps carry the inscriptions.
The inscription is in incised lettering and reads: TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND// TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY/ OF THESE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ OF 1914 - 1918 FROM THIS PARISH/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE// ALSO TO THOSE WHO FELL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939 - 1945// FOR OUR TOMORROW/ THEY GAVE THEIR/ TODAY// (NAMES)
Sources
Websites
Leicestershire County Council’s Leicestershire & Rutland War Memorials Project website, accessed 29.10.2019 from http://www.leicestershirewarmemorials.co.uk/war/memorials/view/704
Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register: Lubenham, accessed 29.10.2019 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/37384
War Memorials Online: Lubenham War Memorial, WMO209801, accessed 29.10.2019 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/209801/
Other
Lubenham War Memorial: Unveiling Ceremony in Market Harborough Advertiser, 04 May 1920, p.6
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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