Stanningfield War Memorial
Village Green, Hoggard’s Green, Stanningfield, Suffolk
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1467951
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-2020
- List Entry Name:
- Stanningfield War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Village Green, Hoggard’s Green, Stanningfield, Suffolk
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1467951
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-2020
- List Entry Name:
- Stanningfield War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Village Green, Hoggard’s Green, Stanningfield, Suffolk
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:
- Village Green, Hoggard’s Green, Stanningfield, Suffolk
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL8834256539
Summary
First World War memorial with later additions for the Second World War.
Reasons for Designation
Stanningfield War Memorial, Hoggard’s Green is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Historic interest:
* as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this local community, and the sacrifice it has made in the conflicts of the C20.
Architectural interest:
* a simple, yet fitting commemorative structure in the form of a stone Latin cross.
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.
One such memorial, a wooden Latin cross, was raised at Hoggard’s Green, north-east of Stanningfield as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the 12 local men died during the First World War. It was unveiled in August 1920. It was subsequently replaced by a later memorial commemorating the First and Second World Wars. A further inscription was added in 2009 in memory of a soldier who lost his life in the conflict in Afghanistan.
A war memorial was also erected in the Church of St Nicholas at Stanningfield.
Details
First World War memorial with later additions for the Second World War.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands in a prominent location at a road junction on the village green and it replaced the original memorial of 1920, which comprised an oak cross surrounded by iron railings. The current war memorial takes the form of a stone Latin cross set upon a plinth and a square concrete base. The main dedicatory inscription on the front (west) face of the plinth reads: IN EVER GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF/ THE STANNINGFIELD MEN/ WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918/ (NAMES)/ 1939 -1945/ (NAMES)/ RIP. The left return carries the inscription: OTHER CONFLICTS/ AFGHANISTAN/ (NAME).
The lower section of the plinth is inscribed: THIS MEMORIAL REPLACES THE WOODEN CROSS/ WHICH WAS ERECTED IN 1920 IN HONOUR OF THE/ 1914-1918 MEN OF THIS VILLAGE.
The memorial is enclosed by metal railings.
Sources
Websites
Stanningfield – WW1 and WW2 Stone Cross, Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register, accessed 26 November 2019 from https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/5262
Stanningfield – WW1 Wooden Cross (Lost), War Memorials Register, accessed 29 November 2019 from https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/22937
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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