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Reference WMO/110048

Address:

St Bartholomew's Churchyard

School Lane

Hints

Tamworth

B78 3DW

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Calvary
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Unknown
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Hints war memorial is located within the churchyard of St Bartholomew’s Church, Hints. The memorial is constructed of local Hollington stone in the form of a calvary and is Grade II listed. Parts of the cross are formed from a reused medieval preaching cross which was re-erected post World War I and dated to circa 1153. When the cross was re-erected it was on a foundation of bricks. These had begun to perish causing the monument to settle displacing the plinth and opening up the joints. In 2004 an application to the Grants for War Memorials Scheme was made to address these issues by dismantling the memorial, providing a new concrete foundation and reconstructing the cross using lime mortar. A grant of £1,635 was awarded to this project. The memorial is by Messrs Bridgeman’s of Lichfield and was dedicated on 21st July 1921.
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Vellum Inscription: To all whom it may concern/This vellum written by Mr W H Downing/is to place on record the restoration of the ancient cross/in the churchyard at Hints, erected on foundations, believed/to have been laid down about the year 1153. The new cross of Staffordshire stone from the quarries of/ Hollington was erected by Messrs Birdgeman and sons/of Lichfield in the design of Sir C Nicholson. It was dedicated by Lionel Crawford, the Lord Bishop of Stafford assisted by the Reverend FR Sallisbury MA, Rector of Weeford, and the Reverend AJ Wheeler MA/Vicar of this parish, and unveiled by Lt Colonel V W de Falbe/DSO, CMO, of the North Staffordshire Regiment, on the 21st/day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand/nine hundred and twenty one, and handed over in perpetuity to our/church of Saint Bartholomew of the parish of Hints, in the/county of Staffordshire, as a War Memorial, in honour/of those who served, and made the supreme sacrifice in the/ Great War of civilisation 1914 - 1918/ WH Downing

Grade II (England)

1038854

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