Appleton Roebuck War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details First World War memorial, 1921, with Second World War additions. DESCRIPTION: the memorial faces the main street and is set within an enclosure of yew and laurel hedges in the churchyard of the Grade-II listed All Saints' Church. A series of five steps leads to the base of the memorial. The memorial of Portland stone stands 2.5m high and the base measures 0.9m long and 0.8m wide. The wheel-cross, decorated with a Celtic design carved in shallow relief, surmounts a plain tapering shaft which stands on a one step Portland stone base. The plain block leaded, main inscription is on the western side of the plinth and reads IN/ GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF/ JOSEPH BARNES 18TH HUSSARS / HENRY YATES CUNDALL R.C.A./ HARRY LORRIMAN K.O.Y.L.I./ AND ALL THEIR COMRADES WHO/ FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918. Below this, on the western face of the base stone is written REST ETERNAL GRANT UNTO THEM O LORD. Two further names are inscribed on the south side of the plinth and may be later additions, as well as the name of one serviceman who fell in the Second World War under the inscription 1939 – 1945. The names of each of the soldiers precedes the regiment they belonged to.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.