Hockley Heath War Memorial at the Junction of the A3400 and the B4439

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Details 732/0/10041 HOCKLEY HEATH War Memorial at the junction of the A3400 and the B4439 30-AUG-07 II A war memorial of 1921, designed by Bateman and Bateman of Birmingham and carved by John White. Of Portland stone, with bronze gnomons to the sundials. It has a triangular, stepped plinth and base, both of which have chamfered corners. This is connected by small volutes at the corner to a column, of no specific order, with a base and capital with Renaissance motifs, including further volutes to the three corners and cherubs heads. The triangular block above this has sundials to each face and chamfered corners. Above its dentilled cornice the body tapers and culminates in a finial in the form of a seated lion. A sculpted garland of bay leaves is twined around the body of the column, which has entasis. The three sundial faces are each different and each has a differently shaped bronze gnomon. Two sides of the base bear the names of the fallen. The third is inscribed TO THE GLORIOUS DEAD/IN HONOURED MEMORY/OF THE MEN /OF THIS DISTRICT/WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/FOR THEIR KING/AND COUNTRY/IN THE GREAT WAR/1914-1918/AND IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945. Carved above the three sundial faces are THE DAYS WERE SHORT and THE WORK GREAT and THEIR TIME PASSED AWAY LIKE A SHADOW. HISTORY: The war memorial was funded by a committee of subscribers at a cost of approximately £450. The site was given by the Chesshire family. It was built in memory of the men who died in the First World War who lived in a radius of two miles, which included the parishes of Lapworth, Nuthurst, Packwood and part of the parish of Tanworth. The architects were the firm of Bateman and Bateman of Birmingham and it is likely that the senior partner, C. E. Bateman who had responsibility for church designs was likely to h

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.