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Latitude: 51.4077 / 51°24'27"N
Longitude: -2.6749 / 2°40'29"W
OS Eastings: 353151
OS Northings: 167850
OS Grid: ST531678
Mapcode National: GBR JM.QFW8
Mapcode Global: VH88S.LW76
Plus Code: 9C3VC85G+32
Entry Name: Barrow Gurney War Memorial
Listing Date: 2 December 2016
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1439684
ID on this website: 101439684
Location: Barrow Gurney, North Somerset, BS48
County: North Somerset
Civil Parish: Barrow Gurney
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: War memorial
A village war memorial of c1920, with additions after 1945.
A village war memorial of c1920, with additions after 1945.
MATERIALS and PLAN: sandstone. The memorial has a hooded Calvary to its top with an octagonal shaft which features a statue of a knight standing behind a shield, set in a niche. Below this the octagonal base rises above a plinth of three steep steps. Surrounding the monument is a square enclosure which has a stone kerb, which appears to be original.
The north face is the principal front and faces the road. The Calvary has a gable to its top with brattished outline and a projecting, brattished ring to the top of the shaft. The carved figure of the knight wears armour and is placed in a niche, approximately half way up the shaft, which has a canopy with an ogee arch and crocketed finials. The shaft dies to a square bottom by broach stops. Below this the drum of the octagonal base has recessed panels to each side showing a quatrefoil with a richly-moulded square boss to the centre. The exception is the north face which bears the words in relief ‘CHRIST.DIED / FOR.ALL.MEN / THESE.FOR / THEIR.COUNTRY’ The names of the fallen are inscribed below on the steps of the plinth. Names of the fallen from the Second World War are inscribed on the south face beneath the dates ‘1939 – 1945’. Each step has a cyma moulded lip.
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 27 February 2017.
A war memorial of c1920, with additions after 1945. In 2004 a grant of £250 for repair of the perimeter wall was given by War Memorials Trust.
Barrow Gurney 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 an accomplished and well-realised war memorial, which takes the form of a sandstone cross with Calvary head on a tapered shaft with a statue of a knight set in a niche;
* Group value: with Steps Farmhouse and attached garden walls, gatepiers and steps, Barrow Gurney (Grade II).
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