Beckbury War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details A churchyard war memorial of c. 1920 with additions of after 1945. MATERIALS and PLAN: red sandstone. A cross with tapered shaft, base, plinth and stepped platform. The cross has octagonal arms with trefoil ends to its cap and arms. The tapered, octagonal shaft has a moulded ring to its top, where it joins the cross and mouldings above the base. The octagonal top of the base dies back to a square lower body. It is inscribed on its northern side with the wording ‘TO / THE GLORY OF / GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF ALL / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919 / ESPECIALLY THOSE FROM THIS PARISH’. The other three sides are inscribed with the names of the fallen below an inscribed cross. The square platform has three steps and the topmost on the north side has been extended and is inscribed ‘AND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 – 1945’ with names recorded below. 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, 19 January 2017.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.