Hartlip War Memorial

The Street, Hartlip, Sittingbourne, ME9 7TL

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First World War memorial of around 1920, with Second World War inscriptions added. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1480544
Date first listed:: 22-Apr-2022
List Entry Name:: Hartlip War Memorial
Statutory Address:: The Street, Hartlip, Sittingbourne, ME9 7TL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1480544
Date first listed:: 22-Apr-2022
List Entry Name:: Hartlip War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: The Street, Hartlip, Sittingbourne, ME9 7TL

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: The Street, Hartlip, Sittingbourne, ME9 7TL

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

County:: Kent
District:: Swale (District Authority)
Parish:: Hartlip
National Grid Reference:: TQ8394164240

Summary

First World War memorial of around 1920, with Second World War inscriptions added.

Reasons for Designation

Hartlip 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 sacrifices it made in the conflicts of the C20.

Architectural interest:

* as a good example of a rough-hewn cross memorial for the period.

Group value:

* with the Grade I-listed Church of St Michael to the north-west and the other listed monuments within the churchyard, in addition to listed houses on the opposing east side of The Street.

History

The aftermath of the First World War that was the great age of memorial building, both as a result of the huge impact the loss of three quarters of a million British lives had on communities and the official policy of not repatriating the dead, which meant that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss.

Hartlip War Memorial was erected in around 1920 to commemorate the men from Hartlip who died in the First World War. The memorial stands on the north side of The Street in Hartlip, adjacent to the Church of St Michael. A photograph in the collection of the Medway Archives Centre shows the memorial soon after it was unveiled in the 1920s, largely in its present form. Following the Second World War, three additional memorial tablets were added, and the dates of the conflict were included on the face of the central granite cross. The designer of the memorial is not known.

Details

First World War memorial, erected around 1920, with later Second World War inscriptions added.

MATERIALS: granite cross, tablets and setts, with stone block wall to the rear. Applied lead lettering to the memorial tablets and the base of the cross.

PLAN: semi-circular memorial plot fronting to The Street, with curved back wall and a central cross.

DESCRIPTION: rough-hewn granite cross with tapering shaft mounted on a plinth and single-stepped base. There is a dedicatory inscription to the polished front section of the cross base, which reads: ‘ERECTED/ IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE GREAT WARS/ 1914-1919/ 1939-1945’. There are five sets of memorial tablets set into a surrounding curved wall of stone blocks, this set behind the cross. These tablets bear the names of the fallen, where they served, their rank, regiment and how old they were when they died. The area between the cross and the memorial wall is paved with granite setts.

Sources

Websites
IWM: Hartlip War Memorial, accessed 11 March 2022 from https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/16168
Medway Archives Centre: Hartlip parish church with war memorial in the foreground (ref: C050966481), accessed 11 March 2022 from https://apps.medway.gov.uk/apps/medwayimages/details.asp?pga=44&searchtype=all&search=churches&pg=8
Roll of Honour: Hartlip War Memorial, accessed 11 March 2022 from http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Kent/Hartlip.html
War Memorials Online: Hartlip Parish, accessed 11 March 2022 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/107747

Legal

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