Great Cornard War Memorial

Great Cornard War Memorial, St Andrew's Churchyard, Church Road, Great Cornard, Suffolk, CO10 0EL

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

A First World War memorial, unveiled 1920, altered after the Second World War. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1470081
Date first listed:: 11-May-2020
List Entry Name:: Great Cornard War Memorial
Statutory Address:: Great Cornard War Memorial, St Andrew's Churchyard, Church Road, Great Cornard, Suffolk, CO10 0EL

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1470081
Date first listed:: 11-May-2020
List Entry Name:: Great Cornard War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: Great Cornard War Memorial, St Andrew's Churchyard, Church Road, Great Cornard, Suffolk, CO10 0EL

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Great Cornard War Memorial, St Andrew's Churchyard, Church Road, Great Cornard, Suffolk, CO10 0EL

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Cornard
National Grid Reference:: TL8832040364

Summary

A First World War memorial, unveiled 1920, altered after the Second World War.

Reasons for Designation

Great Cornard 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 local community, and the sacrifice it made in the conflicts of the C20.

Architectural interest: * as a well-executed example of a small Latin cross type of war memorial.

Group value: * with the Grade I-listed Church of St Andrew.

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 was raised at Great Cornard as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the 33 members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War.

It was designed by Messrs Earee and Haslewood, erected by Messrs SB Peagrum, and the lettering engraved by FJ Lindley. The total cost of the memorial was approximately £200, which was met by public subscription. The memorial was unveiled on Sunday 24 October 1920 by the Lord Lieutenant Sir T Courtenay Warner KCB.

The names of those parishioners who fell during the Second World War were subsequently added to the memorial.

Details

A First World War memorial, unveiled 1920, altered after the Second World War.

MATERIALS: Portland stone.

DESCRIPTION: The memorial stands in the south corner of the churchyard of the Church of St Andrew, beside the junction of Church Road and Bures Road.

The memorial comprises a small Latin cross on top of a tapering octagonal shaft with an octagonal plinth and four-stepped base. The main inscription is incised and the black-painted lettering on the south face of the upper step of the base reads: TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE / FROM THIS PARISH WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914-1918 / THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. The names of the 33 fallen are inscribed on the south-west, south and south-east faces of the plinth.

Further inscriptions on the upper step of the base commemorate those who lost their lives in the Second World War, and read: on the south-east face 1939-45 followed by five names; and on the south-west face 1939-45 and a further five names.

Sources

Websites
Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register – Great Cornard Parish Church, accessed 24/03/2020 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/4415
War Memorials Online – Great Cornard, accessed 24/03/2020 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/151057/
Other
‘War Memorial unveiled by the Lord-Lieutenant’, Suffolk and Essex Free Press, Wednesday 27 October 1920

Legal

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