Bakewell and District - Memorial Cottage Hospital

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Locations

Last known location:
Bakewell Cottage
Nursing Home
Butts Rd
Bakewell
Derbyshire

Nearest postcode:
DE45 1EB

NGR:
SK 21703 68298 (From online digital mapping)

Location details:
By 2014 the building had become a nursing home.

Type

Overall type: Building.

Overall condition: Good. The inscriptions are legible.

Description:

Originally a single storey stone and tile hospital with a stone tablet in the gable, a decorative tablet over the door in the style of a wreath on cloth background, and a memorial tablet inside the porch. The memorial tablet comprises a brown mottled alabaster frame containing white marble tiles divided into panels by yellow glass tesserae. The top and bottom panels contain the inscription and four central columns contain the names arranged into 17 village groups. The inscription is painted in black upright capital roman lettering. The building later became used as a nursing home.

Components:

Component	Material	Height	Width	Depth	Condition
Building	Stone, tile	-	-	-	Good
Tablet	Stone	c800	c1000	-	Good
Tablet	Stone	c800	dia	-	Good
Tablet	White marble, glass	1755	910	-	Good
Frame	Alabaster	1905	1070	30	Good
Dimensions in millimetres unless stated otherwise, ±5mm.

Inscription

Tablet on gable:	BAKEWELL AND DISTRICT WAR MEMORIAL COTTAGE HOSPITAL.

Tablet over door:	1922

Memorial tablet in porch:	WITH DEEP GRATITUDE FOR THEIR SACRIFICE THIS HOSPITAL IS ERECTED AS A LASTING MEMORIAL TO THE MEN FROM BAKEWELL & THE ADJACENT PARISHES WHO SERVING IN DIVERS RANKS & IN EVERY BRANCH OF HIS MAJESTY’S FORCES GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR (Names) “THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US BOTH BY NIGHT AND DAY”

Silver trowel:	PRESENTED TO His Grace the Duke of Rutland, K.G. & P.G.W.(Eng.) ON THE OCCASION OF HIS LAYING THE MEMORIAL STONE OF THE BAKEWELL & DISTRICT MEMORIAL COTTAGE HOSPITAL. AUGUST 7TH.. 1920.

Conflicts and people commemorated
Conflict	First World War (1914-1919)
Number died	263
Number served and returned	0
Total names	263

Administration

Custodians: Not known.

Local Authorities:
Before 1974: Bakewell Parish Council, Bakewell Rural District Council and Derbyshire County Council.
After 1974: Bakewell Town Council, Derbyshire Dales District Council and Derbyshire County Council.

History

c1919-1920: The land was donated by the Duke of Rutland.

May, 1920: The first sod was cut on the site.

7th August, 1920: The foundation stone was laid by Mr N J Hughes-Hallett, Deputy Provincial Grand Master, and the Duke and Duchess of Rutland.

c1920: The hospital was constructed at a cost of c£13000 including endowments..

17th April, 1951: The building lies within the Peak District National Park designated on that date.

Unknown date: The hospital was closed and the building became used as a nursing home.

8th April, 2010: The memorial was surveyed by Roy Branson and Alan Willmot.

8th April, 2010: There was slight chipping to top left corner of alabaster frame.

References

17th June, 1920: Derby Telegraph, p2, a brief announcement of the forthcoming foundation stone laying.

24th June, 1920: Derby Telegraph, p2, a slightly more detailed announcement of the forthcoming foundation stone laying.

Aspects of Dales' Life Through Peace and War; Keith Taylor; ISBN 978 1 901214 89 5; Ashbridge Press/Country Books, Bakewell, 2007.

Comments

A silver trowel with incised inscription was presented to the Duke of Rutland when he laid the foundation stone. In 2014 it was displayed in the museum at Haddon Hall.