War memorial adjacent to St Mary's Church

Heritage listing

Details The Portland stone memorial stands on a small green area in the junction of High Street and North Lane, to the north-west of the Church of St Mary (Grade II*-listed) and the Grade II-listed churchyard gates, with numerous other listed buildings in the environs. It takes the form of a Gothic shrine surmounted by a cross. The two-stepped base, square on plan, is surmounted by a tall plinth of two stages, chamfered at the corners. The middle stage provides four panels facing north, south, east and west, separated at the corners by tall splayed blind panels with Gothic ornament and gabled heads. This is surmounted by a short octagonal drum with recessed blind panels with ogee heads on the north, south, east and west faces. The whole is surmounted by a tapering spire topped by a small floriated wheel-head cross. On the west-facing panel of the central stage the principal dedicatory inscription reads: +/ IN PROUD/ AND GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF/ THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WARS/ 1914 - 1919/ &/ 1939 - 1945. On the panels facing north and south are inscribed 38 names in alphabetical order. On the panel facing east is the inscription RIP/ 1939 – 1945, followed by eight names in alphabetical order. Two curved stone dwarf walls enclose the monument, broken by an entrance to the south.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.