Hindolveston War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details First World War memorial. Erected in 1921, to a design by Messrs’ T H Blythe, Foulsham, Norfolk. MATERIALS: Carved from limestone. DESCRIPTION: Hindolveston War Memorial is located on the Street, Hindolveston. It comprises a small Celtic cross sat on a tapering square shaft. The shaft is chamfered from the top with runout and bar stops, and rises from a square plinth on a two stepped base. The top corners of the plinth are decorated with flattened ram’s horn spirals. The front (south west) face of the plinth is incised TO / THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF THE / MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO FELL IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914 – 18 / THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE. Two further faces are incised with the names of the Fallen. The memorial is sat on a raised corner site and is enclosed by a post and chain fence, with a hedge to the rear. The memorial and gravel surround is supported by a flint retaining wall. 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, 5 June 2017.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.