CASTLE DONINGTON

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Reference WMO/86594

Address:

High Street

jct Delven Lane

Castle Donington

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Composite
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Limestone
  • Stone Portland stone
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Castle Donington war memorial stands on the High Street in a conservation area. The calvary includes a limestone figure of Christ beneath a timber gable. A limestone tablet carries the inscription with bronze plaques detailing the names of the fallen on the flanking walls. The memorial is made of ashlared, honey-coloured limestone and takes the form of a calvary, set within a tall, round-headed arch with hollow moulding. The arch has a keystone in the shape of a stone-carved scroll inscribed with 'I.N.R.I'. Above this, supported by stone corbels, is an oak gable, with recessed panels in which is carved 'THEY LOVED NOT THEIR LIVES UNTO THE DEATH'. The whole stands upon a moulded plinth which supports a rectangular pedestal with a recessed, Portland stone tablet inscribed 'YE WHO PASS BY, REMEMBER BEFORE GOD THE GALLANT DEAD WHOSE NAMES ARE WRITTEN HERE, THOUGH MANY LIE IN OTHER LANDS THEY FELL IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-1919. THE MEN WERE VERY GOOD UNTO US, AND WE WERE NOT HURT. THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US BOTH BY NIGHT AND DAY'. To either side, curved walls of rock-faced, polygonal stone with ashlared limestone coping, terminate in limestone pillars of the same height. From here, a second curved wall forms a semi-circular forecourt with steps leading up to the memorial. The pillars have bronze plaques with the names of the fallen from the First World War, and in the plinth the bronze plaque is inscribed 'ALSO THESE WHO ADDED THE GIFT OF THEIR LIVES 1939-1945' followed by their names. HISTORY: The war memorial in Castle Donington commemorates the fallen from the First and Second World Wars. It was unveiled and dedicated on 12 January 1921 by Lady Donington and the Bishop of Peterborough. The site was donated by Miss Eaton, a member of the war memorial committee; and the limestone was donated by John Gillies Shields JP. The memorial was designed by Cecil Greenwood Hare (1875-1932) who specialised in ecclesiastical buildings and church interiors. Hare was a pupil of George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907) whom he joined as a partner in 1907. After Bodley's death, Hare continued to work in the Bodleian idiom. c Historic England listing entry
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