War memorial outside St George's Church, South Moor

Heritage listing

Details The memorial stands outside the E wall of the Church of St George (Grade II-listed). It takes the form of a large, elaborately-hooded Calvary. The timber cross shaft bears the figure of Christ crucified, cast in copper. The shaft rises from a stone pedestal that stands on a three-stepped base. Inset into the church wall a large stone panel bears three dark stone plaques. The principal dedicatory inscription is recorded on the central plaque, reading TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN WHOSE NAMES/ ARE HERE RECORDED WHO/ CHEERFULLY GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR FREEDOM AND/ THE ENGLAND THEY LOVED/ SO WELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1919/ THEIR RELATIVES/ HAVE ERECTED THIS TABLET/ AND ADJOINING CROSS./ “ABOVE THE GRAVES OF HEROES/ THE WOODEN CROSSES GROW,/ WHO SHALL NO MORE SEE DURHAM,/ NOR ANY PLACE THEY KNOW,/ WHERE FELL TOPS FACE THE MORNING/ AND GREAT WINDS BLOW;/ WHO LOVING AS NONE OTHER/ THE LAND THAT IS THEIR MOTHER,/ UNFALTERING RENOUNCED HER/ BECAUSE THEY LOVED HER SO.”/ W.N. HODGSON. The names are listed on the two plaques to either side. This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 23 November 2017.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.