War memorial outside St George's Church, South Moor

The war memorial is located outside the east wall of St George's Church. It features a large, elaborately-hooded Calvary with a timber cross shaft that displays a figure of Christ crucified, made from copper. The shaft is mounted on a stone pedestal, which sits on a three-stepped base.

Attached to the church wall is a large stone panel that holds three dark stone plaques. The central plaque contains the main dedicatory inscription, which reads: "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 of those commemorated are inscribed on the two plaques flanking the central one.