Morley War Memorial Cross

Heritage listing

Details The Cornish granite memorial stands in an enclosure on the south-east side of the junction of Deopham Road and St Peter’s Hill. The memorial comprises an approximately 3m tall rough-hewn wheel-head cross standing on a tapering plinth. The plinth stands on a single-stepped base, square on plan. The plinth bears the inscriptions. The principal dedicatory inscription to the front face of the plinth reads TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF/ THE PARISHES OF MORLEY WHO FELL IN/ THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918/ (NAMES). The later Second World War dedication to the north-east face of the plinth reads ALSO OF THOSE WHO DIED IN/ THE WAR OF 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES). The memorial enclosure is raised from road level, with a flint cobble retaining wall with red brick dressings and coped by a course of half-round black engineering bricks, carrying railings*. The enclosure is approached by a rake of four steps with a gate*, to the front. * Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the metal railings and gate are not of special architectural or historic interest.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.