Hartburn War Memorial
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| Hartburn War Memorial | |
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| United Kingdom | |
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| For men from Hartburn killed in the First World War | |
| Unveiled | 31 July 1921 |
| Location | 55°10′08″N 1°51′43″W / 55.168953°N 1.861983°W Village green, Hartburn, Northumberland near |
| Designed by | Sir Edwin Lutyens |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | Hartburn War Memorial |
| Designated | 30 January 1986 |
| Reference no. | 1042078 |
Hartburn War Memorial is a First World War Memorial in the village of Hartburn, Northumberland, in the north-east of England. The memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was unveiled in 1921 and is today a grade II listed building.[1]
In the aftermath of the First World War and its unprecedented casualties, thousands of war memorials were built across Britain. Amongst the most prominent designers of memorials was the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, described by Historic England as "the leading English architect of his generation". Lutyens designed the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London, which became the focus for the national Remembrance Sunday commemorations, as well as the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing—the largest British war memorial anywhere in the world—and the Stone of Remembrance which appears in all large Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries and in several of Lutyens's civic war memorials. Hartburn's memorial is one of fifteen War Crosses by Lutyens, all sharing a broadly similar design.[1]
Many of Lutyens' commissions for war memorials originated with pre-war clients and friends. The commission for Hartburn came from Mr and Mrs Straker of nearby Angerton Hall, the gardens of which Lutyens renovated with Gertrude Jekyll in 1904.[1][2]
