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Latitude: 51.496 / 51°29'45"N
Longitude: 0.3016 / 0°18'5"E
OS Eastings: 559864
OS Northings: 179960
OS Grid: TQ598799
Mapcode National: GBR XX.GP8
Mapcode Global: VHHNP.5NSK
Plus Code: 9F32F8W2+9J
Entry Name: War Memorial
Listing Date: 23 March 2005
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1391297
English Heritage Legacy ID: 492910
Also known as: Stepney Boys Home War Memorial
ID on this website: 101391297
Location: North Stifford, Thurrock, Essex, RM16
County: Thurrock
Electoral Ward/Division: Chafford and North Stifford
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Grays
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Church of England Parish: Stifford St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
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War Memorial
II
War Memorial for 1914-1918 War. Granite with lead lettering. A shafted cross, octagonal in plan, on which is hung a wreath, all set on an octagonal plinth and base. The plinth carries the names of the 'Stepney Boys who laid down their lives during the Great War'. There are approximately thirty names.
HISTORY: This memorial is sited on the crescent green at the Stepney Home, established in 1901 by Stepney Board of Guardians to house 200 boys and girls. The home was taken over by London County Council in 1930. It is an example of the cottage-home system whereby workhouse children were instead moved to rural developments and sent to local schools. Many cottage-home villages were built in the early-C20, often in an Arts and Crafts influenced style. Stepney's cotrage-home development, similarly to Salford's and Hackney's, adopted the layout of curving rows of homes around a green. Of note at Stepney was the prominent centrepiece of the distinctive Arts and Crafts style water tower, which converted in the early-C21, along with the former principal's house across from the memorial; the cottages are demolished.
Listed as a complete, handsome and legible World War I memorial that has added historic interest as part of the c.1901 Stepney cottage-home development.
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 10 August 2017.
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