Hartlip War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details First World War memorial, erected around 1920, with later Second World War inscriptions added. MATERIALS: granite cross, tablets and setts, with stone block wall to the rear. Applied lead lettering to the memorial tablets and the base of the cross. PLAN: semi-circular memorial plot fronting to The Street, with curved back wall and a central cross. DESCRIPTION: rough-hewn granite cross with tapering shaft mounted on a plinth and single-stepped base. There is a dedicatory inscription to the polished front section of the cross base, which reads: ‘ERECTED/ IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE GREAT WARS/ 1914-1919/ 1939-1945’. There are five sets of memorial tablets set into a surrounding curved wall of stone blocks, this set behind the cross. These tablets bear the names of the fallen, where they served, their rank, regiment and how old they were when they died. The area between the cross and the memorial wall is paved with granite setts.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.