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Elveden War Memorial
County Suffolk   District Council Forest Heath 
Civil Parish or equivalent Elveden- Icklingham and Eriswell  Town/Village* Elveden 
Road London Road 
Precise Location Weather Heath on the Elveden Hall Estate (north side of the A11 trunk road between Thetford and Newmarket) 
OS Grid Ref TL825800  Postcode IP24 
Previous location(s)  
Setting Lightly wooded heathland  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
Clyde Young  Architect(s)   
John Thompson & sons  Builder(s)   

Commissioned by

 Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Baron and Earl of Iveagh and parishioners 

Design & Constrn period

 1919 

Date of installing

 1921 

Exact date of unveiling

 21 Nov 1921 

Category
Abstract Animal Architectural
Commercial Commemorative Composite
Free Functional Funerary
Heraldic Military Natural
Non-Commemorative Performance Portable
Religious Roadside, Wayside Sculptural
Temporary, Mobile Other  

Object Type
Building Clock Tower Architectural
Coat of Arms Cross Fountain
Landscape Marker Medallion
Mural Panel Readymade
Relief Shaft Sculpture
Statue Street Furniture War Memorial
Other Object Sub Type:

Subject Type
Allegorical Mythological Pictorial
Figurative Non-figurative Portrait
Still-life Symbolic Other

Subject Sub Type
Bust Equestrian Full-length
Group Head Reclining
Seated Standing Torso
Part Material Dimension
Column  Weldon stone  H 38.7m (overall) 
Base  Weldon stone  H 7 m (approx) x W 489 cm x D 489 cm 
Vase  Portland stone   

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 Forest Heath District Council 

Listing status
Grade I Grade II* Grade II Don't Know Not Listed

Surface Condition
Corrosion, Deterioration Accretions
Bird Guano Abrasions, cracks, splits
Biological growth Spalling, crumbling
Metallic staining Previous treatments
Other  
Detail:

Structural Condition
Armature exposed Broken or missing parts
Replaced parts Loose elements
Cracks, splits, breaks, holes Spalling, crumbling
Water collection Other
Detail:

Vandalism
Graffiti Structural damage Surface Damage
Detail: Lots of names scratched into the stone up to head height- especially around the door. Lightning conductor on north face pulled off at head height.

Overall condition
Good Fair Poor

Risk
No Known Risk At Risk Immediate
Signatures/Marks  
Inscriptions Facing A11 HERE / WHERE THE PARISHIONERS OF / ELVEDEN, BRISWELL / AND / ICKLINGHAM / MEET, / THE INHABITANTS HAVE ERECTED / THIS MONUMENT TO THE GLORIOUS / MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THESE / VILLAGES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR IN / THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 / OF ICKLINGHAM, / DORLING L, HUNT J, HURRELL E, OSBORNE H, PALMER F, PAYNE E, PAYNE E, RANNS G, SHARMAN H S, TURNER S, WARD F H 1939-1945 1939-45 ELVEDEN (Viscount) A, ARBON C H, CHAPMAN R T, HOLDEN C C, RUTTER S N E, STILES J Facing east (towards Elveden)1914-1918 ELVEDEN, ARBON G, ARBON W, BOWERS C, BURBIDGE J P, CARTER S, CLARKE W, COE H, COOPER J, COUSINS W, CROSS D, CROSS I, DAVEY H, DAVEY J W, ELDRED J, GRAVER L H, HONEYBALL W C, LINGE C, LINGWOOD G W, MANNING H, MURKIN A, NICHOLLS W, ROLFE F M, SPAULL W A, TRETT P, WELLS Jas., WELLS Jno., NEALE C, Facing West: ERISWELL, BRUNNING F, BRUNNING W, BURSTON R J, HARDING C, HEFFER R, PLUMB A A, SMITH G, SNARE W G, WORBY F  

Description (physical)

 Corinthian column with a square moulded base- surmounted by a commemorative vase or urn. The base contains a north-facing door giving access to a newel stair rising the full height of the monument. On three faces are plaques bearing the names of the men from three parishes who died in the war of 1914-18. Added to each is a further plaque with the names of those who died in the war of 1939-1945 

Description (iconographical)

 The Bury Free Press in its account of the unveiling published on 26 November sets the Elveden memorial in context: ‘As a tribute to the imperishable memory of the men of Elveden, Eriswell and Icklingham, a magnificent Corinthian column has been erected on Earl Iveagh’s estate at a point where the three parishes meet. A new landmark has thus been set up in West Suffolk, and the memorial is the most imposing in the Eastern Counties...Such an arresting spectacle is it, that few who journey along the road near which it stands will pass by without pausing for a time to behold the beauty and magnificence of the monument' It also notes that the funerary urn is based on the 1791 Coade stone Monument to Timothy Brett in the grounds of Mount Edgcumbe, Plymouth, now a country park. Columns on this scale are not usual in World War I memorials and suggest competition with the Nelson and Leicester monuments. Tact suggested to the Earl of Iveagh and his architect, who had inherited the Elveden practice from his father, that their column should be shorter than Nelson’s (44 metres), but just taller than the Earl of Leicester’s (38 metres). 

Photographs

 Date taken:  13/6/2006
Date logged:  21/6/2006

Photographed by:
David Hulks

On Site Inspection

 Date:  13/6/2006

Inspected by:
David Hulks

Sources and References

 www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk - 19 June 2006 (list of dead transcribed by David Rudram) - BOE III p. 200 ttp://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.4532 (19 June 2006) 

Database

 Date entered:  19/6/2006

Data inputter:
David Hulks and Richard Cocke