War memorial

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1437900
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-2016
List Entry Name:: War memorial

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1437900
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-2016
List Entry Name:: War memorial
Location Description:: Adjacent to Paxford Mission Church, B4479, Paxford, Blockley GL55 6XP

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

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Blockley
National Grid Reference:: SP1845337815

Summary

A First World War memorial, set up circa 1920.

Reasons for Designation

The war memorial at Paxford 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; * Design: a well-executed stone obelisk with well-planned surrounding pylons echoing its form.

History

The memorial was erected after the First World War, as part of the great wave of commemoration of the sacrifice made by the Fallen from communities across the country. It was set up in a prominent position at the centre of the village, next to Paxford Mission Church (1866), formerly the village Infants’ School.

Details

A First World War memorial, set up circa 1920.

MATERIALS Stone.

DESCRIPTION The memorial takes the form of an obelisk, set on a square plinth atop a slightly larger square base. The whole stands on a three-stepped stone platform. At each corner of the second step of the platform is a post in the shape of a smaller obelisk.

The plinth, base, and top step of the platform are inscribed: IN LOVING MEMORY OF / THE SOLDIERS OF / PAXFORD / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR / ENGLAND AND THE WORLD / followed by the names of the eleven men of the village who died in the First World War.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 10 January 2017.

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/235401
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 July 2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20973

Legal

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