MUCH HADHAM

Much Hadham War Memorial - Taken by Robert Edwards (geograph) licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons License 05 Aug 2009

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Moor Place

Tower Hill

Much Hadham

SG10 6DL

England

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Status: On original site

Type: Freestanding

Location: External

Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace

Description: Latin cross

Materials:

Stone Stone (any)

Lettering: Unknown

Conflicts:

First World War (1914-1918)
Second World War (1939-1945)

About the memorial: Latin stone cross in enclosure. The HE Listing entry appears to date from 2001 before the reconstruction several years later. The IWM entry refers to complete replacement in the same style in 2006 after serious cracks were found in 2004 with extra WW2 names being added. As part of the village war memorial scheme plaques were also erected in the Congregational and Parish Churches in 1921

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Extract from newspaper report of unveiling on 2 January 1921 " Much Hadham War Memorial
Unveiled by Viscount Hampden, CB C.M.G. 
The Much Hadham War Memorial, of which the village is justly proud, was unveiled and dedicated on Sunday afternoon. It consists of a handsome cross of Ham Hill stone admirably designed by Mr H. Wilson, architect, and President of the Arts and Crafts Society, London. The Ham Hill stone is noted for its durability and its colour, and soon tones down to a yellowish grey. The work has been artistically executed by Mr W. E Micklewright of Stoke-under-Ham, near Yeovil. The site for the memorial comprises a rectangular piece of ground, about 30 poles, to the south of the northern entrance of Moor Place Park. It was given by Capt. H. C. Norman, D.S O , and is most advantageously situated, the flint wall with brick dressings forming the eastern boundary, adjoining the main road running through the village. The site has been skilfully laid out by Messrs G. L. Thurgood & Son, who largely employed ex-Service men to do the work. The entrance steps are paved in flint and brick set in diaper pattern. The flights of steps lead to the terrace, which is bordered on the other three sides by small yew trees adjoining an herbaceous border with turf beyond. Right down the middle of the terrace is a broad space in the centre of which is the 9ft. 3in., square base on which the memorial is erected. The remainder of this space is paved with flint and flags of Portland stone. The memorial is 15ft.6in,high and weighs five tons. It consists of a Latin Cross with octagonal shaft on a square pedestal rising from three steps. The cap of the shaft is ornamented with leaves and the cross itself has a rose at the centre and one at each end of the arms and shaft. In the middle ages an ornamental cross was looked upon as symbolical of glory, so this revival Is particularly pleasing in a war memorial. The names of the 43 gallant Hadham men who fell in the war are incised on three of the stone faces of the pedestal and painted black. The centre face bears the dedicatory Inscription " To the memory of the men of this parish who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918” and underneath are thirteen names, the remainder being Inscribed on the eastern and western sides of the pedestal. No less than 224 Hadham men responded to their country's call and the names of the 43 who fell, of whom it may be truly said 
“These gave their lives that you who live may reap a richer harvest ere you fall asleep,' "
(Herts and Essex Observer - Saturday 08 January 1921)

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Listing grade:

Grade II (England)

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https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1246346

Unique listing reference number:

1246346

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