Woodland War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details The memorial stands in front of the chapel to Woodland Cemetery (unlisted). It takes the form of a tall stone pillar with a simple capstone, rising from a two stepped base. The base stands on the corniced top of the broad plinth, which in turn stands on a three-stepped base. A bronze panel is fixed into the recessed front of the plinth. The panel is made to look like a triple arcade in an ashlar wall, with two medallions in the wall above the arch columns. The left-hand medallion encloses the date MCMXIV, with MCMXIX in the right-hand medallion. The three round-headed arches carry the principal dedicatory inscription, reading from left to right: ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE / MEN OF WOODLAND VILLAGE AND DISTRICT WHO SERVED / IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR. The commemorated names are recorded in lists under the arches. Along the bottom of the bronze panel is inscribed: FOR THE WORSHIP OF GOD AND THE BENEFIT OF THIS LAND BE STEADFAST AND LASTING IN ALL THINGS WITHOUT END / AND I COMMAND ALL TRUE MEN TO HELP EACH OTHER RIGHT FOR TO DO AND RIGHT FOR TO RECEIVE. This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 6 March 2017.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.