Pirton War Memorial, Hertfordshire

Heritage listing

Details Unveiled in April 1920, Pirton war memorial was built to the designs of G Maile and Son of Euston Road, London. The memorial stands at around 3 metres in height, is square in plan and takes the form of a roughly-hewn granite stone obelisk on a chamfered-topped plinth set above a base and a two-stepped platform. The plinth bears a set of four cast-bronze tablets, three of which list the names of the 30 men who fell in the First World War (1914-18) with another carrying the inscription ‘IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / DURING THE WAR / 1939-1945’ beneath which are the names of six of the fallen from the Second World War. All of the tablets were added to the memorial following the Second World War; the three which commemorate the fallen from the First World War covered over the names which were originally inscribed into the granite by the stonemasons in 1920. In 2009 the Pirton War Memorial Group added new steps, stone borders, gates and wooden fences to the memorial. The memorial is situated approximately 40 metres from the Church of St Mary, at the north side of the churchyard facing Crab Tree Lane. This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 12 January 2017.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.