Witheridge War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details A First World War memorial, built after 1919; altered after the Second World War. MATERIALS Granite. DESCRIPTION The memorial stands in a prominent roadside location inside the railings (listed Grade II) on the southern edge of the churchyard of the Grade I-listed Church of St John the Baptist. A gate is set in the railings at this point, and a short flight of steps leads to the memorial from the adjacent pavement. The memorial comprises a roughly-hewn cross in the Celtic style, the face of which is decorated with a relief-carved inverted longsword. The cross stands on a roughly-hewn trapezoidal plinth, on top of a three-stepped base. The main inscription, in blackened lettering on the smoothed front of the plinth reads: 1914 - 1919 / FOR GOD, KING & COUNTRY / IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING MEN OF THIS PARISH, followed by 17 names in two columns. Beneath this, on the front face of the upper step of the base, is the additional inscription: 1939 1945, followed by five names in two columns.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.