Public Monument and Sculpture Association National Recording Project
HEATON MOOR WAR MEMORIAL Photograph
Region ID | MR | |
Work ID | 333 | |
Manual Reference | MR/STO08 | |
Type | War Memorial, World War I | |
Title | HEATON MOOR WAR MEMORIAL | |
Sculptor | Cassidy, John | |
Architect | Sellars, James Henry | |
Date of design | 1920-1921 | |
Year of unveiling | 1921 | |
Unveiling details | 30 January 1921 | |
Road | Heaton Moor Road | |
Precise Location | north-west side | |
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Work is | Extant | |
Listing Status | II | |
Duty of Care | Stockport MBC | |
Commissioned by | Heaton Moor War Memorial Committee | |
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War memorial. Bronze statue of soldier in battle dress carrying rifle on stone pedestal. Backed by semi-circular ashlar wall. The stone pedestal includes the principal inscriptions and bronze panels recording the names of the dead. The original bronze panels included a depiction of soldiers in the trenches, this was apparently stolen and replaced with an inferior plain panel. | ||
Memorial was erected to commemorate those serviceman from both Heaton Moor and Heaton Chapel killed in the First World War. The initial public meetings and correspondence in the press centred on whether the community should erect a statue or provide a more utilitarian memorial in the form of a gymnasium. A public meeting decided in favour of the statue. The Manchester sculptor, John Cassidy, was approached for a design and proposed a bronze memorial of a soldier and an angel on a stone pedestal. The estimated cost was £1,800- £2,000. Cassidy agreed not to use the same model for any other memorial within a thirty-mile radius. The site chosen for the memorial was on Heaton Moor Road in front of St Paul's church, on land obtained from the church. It was intended to include stone seating in the space created at the rear of the memorial but the funds did not allow this to be fully realised. James Henry Sellars was responsible for the semi-circular ashlar wall. The completed memorial was unveiled in January 1921. Cassidy was congratulated for producing a statue which 'suggested great ideals: it suggested something of the infinite; it suggested heroic endurance and sustained fortitude and triumph in the face of overwhelming odds.' | ||
Erected 1921.(1) | ||
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raw year | 1921 | |
Condition | Fair | |
At risk | No known risk | |
Inscriptions | Inscription: IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF / HEATON CHAPEL / AND / HEATON MOOR / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919; rear THEIR / NAME / LIVETH / FOR / EVERMORE | |
Signatures | none visible from ground | |
Elements
Element Details
Part of work | Material | Dimensions |
|---|---|---|
Statue | Bronze | |
Wall | Ashlar | |
Pedestal | ||
Assessment of Condition
Surface Character
Detail | Comment |
|---|---|
Corrosion, Deterioration | |
Structural Condition
Structural Condition | Comment |
|---|---|
Broken, missing parts | bronze panel on pedestal missing |
