Dullingham War Memorial

churchyard of the Church of St Mary, Church Close, Dullingham, Newmarket, CB8 9UW

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A First World War memorial, dedicated in 1920, with further names added after the Second World War. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1481011
Date first listed:: 16-May-2022
List Entry Name:: Dullingham War Memorial
Statutory Address:: churchyard of the Church of St Mary, Church Close, Dullingham, Newmarket, CB8 9UW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1481011
Date first listed:: 16-May-2022
List Entry Name:: Dullingham War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: churchyard of the Church of St Mary, Church Close, Dullingham, Newmarket, CB8 9UW

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: churchyard of the Church of St Mary, Church Close, Dullingham, Newmarket, CB8 9UW

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Dullingham
National Grid Reference:: TL6313157688

Summary

A First World War memorial, dedicated in 1920, with further names added after the Second World War.

Reasons for Designation

Dullingham 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 good example of memorial design incorporating extensive detail replicated from a specific ancient Celtic wheeled stone cross.

Group value:

* with the Church of St Mary (Grade I).

History

The aftermath of the First World War 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.

This memorial was dedicated on 6 April 1920. The architect and sculptor responsible are not known. It commemorates 22 individuals from the parish of Dullingham; 19 names from the First World War and 3 from the Second. The decoration on the memorial replicates that found on the C8 St Martin’s cross on the Isle of Iona. It is a fairly accurate copy although the west face bosses are more decorated and the intertwined snakes simplified while on the east face the central roundel appears to feature an ox and ass in place of the angels in the original. A quotation from the Bible (Luke, chapter 1 verse 74) is inscribed on the base.

Details

A First World War memorial, dedicated in 1920, with further names added after the Second World War.

MATERIALS: stone and concrete.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial is situated in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary, to the west of the tower. It is a tall Celtic wheel cross on a tapering base raised on two stone steps set on a concrete foundation pad. The east and west faces of the cross are covered in carving.

The west face lower panel features six bosses with intertwined serpents, above which are four figure-scenes: a group of four figures, seated musicians, Abraham's sacrifice and Daniel between two lions. The centre of the cross features a roundel of the seated Virgin and Child with leonine beasts in the side arms and three pairs of back-to-back leonine beasts with intertwined tails in the top arm. The face of the cross ring is undecorated.

The lower part of the east face features three roundels of snake-and-boss ornament above which are seven interlaced bosses with snakes issuing from and intertwined around them. The largest of these bosses is also one of five high-relief bosses symmetrically placed in the cross head. That at the centre of the cross is set in a ring of nine small bosses linked by spirals. In the side-arms each boss is linked by snakes while that in the top arm lies between two pairs of leonine beasts. The face of the cross ring is decorated with knitted interlace.

A dedication on the east side of the base reads: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN NEVER DYING MEMORY/ OF THOSE DULLINGHAM SOLDIERS/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914 – 19’. Below this is a quotation: ‘THAT WE BEING DELIVERED OUT OF THE/ HAND OF OUR ENEMIES MIGHT SERVE HIM/ WITHOUT FEAR ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIFE’. The names of the fallen of the First World War are inscribed on the north and south sides and of the Second World War on the west.

Sources

Books and journals
Fisher, I (Author), Early Medieval sculpture in the West Highlands and Islands, (2001), 133, 135
Websites
UK Inventory of War Memorials, accessed 11th March 2022 from www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/search
War Memorials Online, accessed 11th March 2022 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/134915

Legal

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