Old Basings War Memorial has been awarded grade two listed status by Historic England along with 132 others in the UK. Oddly this was picked up by the Helensburgh Advertiser and on the Daily Mail website ( who seemed to think the Old Basing memorial was the Basingstoke one) and our local paper the Basingstoke Gazette.
Old Basings memorial is added to hundreds of other memorials that have already been granted listed status. The Historic England Press release said:
“In 2014, Historic England committed to listing 2,500 war memorials by the end of 2018 to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War. It achieved this target, listing 2,645, but decided to continue the work as many more cherished memorials worthy of listing status were identified.”