Spaldwick War Memorial

The Green, High Street, Spaldwick, Cambridgeshire, PE28 0TD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1460045
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-2019
List Entry Name:: Spaldwick War Memorial
Statutory Address:: The Green, High Street, Spaldwick, Cambridgeshire, PE28 0TD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1460045
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-2019
List Entry Name:: Spaldwick War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: The Green, High Street, Spaldwick, Cambridgeshire, PE28 0TD

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 Green, High Street, Spaldwick, Cambridgeshire, PE28 0TD

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Spaldwick
National Grid Reference:: TL1287472806

Summary

First World War memorial,1922, with later additions.

Reasons for Designation

Spaldwick War Memorial, which stands on The Green at the junction of Stow Road and High Street, 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 sacrifices it has made in the conflicts of the C20.

Architectural interest:

* as an elegant and well-executed sandstone cross bearing a carved wreath.

Group value:

* with the base of a medieval cross on The Green (Grade II), 2 Stow Road (Grade II) and The George (Grade II*).

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 which meant that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss.

One such memorial was raised at Spaldwick as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by six members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War.

Spaldwick War Memorial was designed by W E Ashley who was responsible for a number of memorials in the Huntingdon area including Great Stukeley War Memorial (Grade II). It was unveiled in 1922. Further inscriptions were added to the memorial following the Second World War and the Korean War.

Details

First World War memorial,1922, with later additions.

MATERIALS: sandstone.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands on the village green at the junction of Stow Road and High Street. The memorial comprises a sandstone Latin cross which has a carved wreath affixed to the north side of the cross head. The splayed foot of the cross shaft rises from a stone square plinth on a square base.

The incised inscription on the south face of the plinth reads TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN SACRED MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ (6 NAMES). The north face of the plinth bears the inscription ALSO OF/ (2 NAMES) WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1939 – 1945, while the east face reads (1 NAME)/ WHO GAVE HIS LIFE IN KOREA/ APRIL 29TH 1953.

Sources

Websites
Roll of Honour, accessed 27 September 2017 from http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Huntingdonshire/Spaldwick.html
War Memorial Register, accessed 27 September 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/369
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 September 2017 from www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/154096

Legal

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