Botley War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details First and Second World War memorial. Erected in 1920 by the builders Messrs W Cornish, with a further inscription added after the Second World War. MATERIALS: carved from Hopton wood stone and York stone. DESCRIPTION: the war memorial stands in the churchyard of All Saints Church. It is situated to the south of the Grade-II listed church, near the entrance gate of the churchyard. The memorial comprises a Latin cross, which stands on four tiered steps supported by a rectangular pedestal with a projecting cornice, a plinth with a projecting cornice, and a square, York stone, three-stepped base. Each face of the pedestal is decorated with a laurel wreath carved in relief. The plinth has a flat recess on each side for the inscriptions. The east face is inscribed in lead lettering: SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919/ “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN/ THAN THIS, THAT HE GAVE HIS/ LIFE FOR FRIENDS”/ AND IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945. The north, south and west faces are inscribed in lead lettering with 33 names of the fallen. There are also 12 names of servicemen who died during the Second World War on the west face of the plinth. At the top of the base on the west side of the memorial is a cross-shaped memorial vase.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.