Pendeen War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details A First World War memorial, dedicated in 1920; altered after the Second World War. MATERIALS Granite. DESCRIPTION Wheel-head cross on tapering base and plinth with stone posts and metal railings to three sides. The principal face of the shaft is inscribed ‘IN / LOVING MEMORY / OF ALL THOSE / WHO WENT FORTH / FROM THE / PARISH OF PENDEEN / AND ESPECIALLY / OF THOSE WHO / LAID DOWN THEIR / LIVES IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919 / FOR THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY / AND RIGHTEOUSNESS / "THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE". Below, on the plinth are inscribed the names of the 28 parishioners who lost their lives in the First World War, including two noted as missing, and a nurse. The back of the plinth is inscribed ‘DEDICATED / BY THE / LORD BISHOP OF TRURO / JUNE 19 1920’. After World War Two, the front railing was removed to accommodate a stone slab with a simple raised shield to record the eight men who fell in that conflict under the heading ‘1939-1945 / IN THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE’. The granite for the memorial was likely to have been quarried at Carn Earnes, on the hill adjacent to the church and its cemetery.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.