War Memorial

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6621SE GLENSIDE, Saltburn 802-1/11/41 (East side) War Memorial

GV II*

War memorial to dead of the Great War. 1919; unveiled 14 November 1920. Bronze signed west Reynolds-Stephens 1919. Granite and bronze. Arts and crafts style. Reddish polished granite cross, with wide stepped plinth on darker base, has bronze plaque set in arms and shaft. Horizontal composition of bronze shows figure of Christ in the tomb, drapery hanging down into the shaft of the cross, with remainder of space filled by outstretched wings of angels stooping over head and feet of figure. Signature at foot of bronze. Long inscriptions, with names of dead on front and sides of base, and on lower section `TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE FROM SALTBURN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR ENGLAND IN THE GREAT

WAR/ WE HAVE NO GLORY GREAT ENOUGH FOR YOU'. Dates 1914 and 1918 in bronze laurel wreaths on narrow sides of base. (Wilson CS: The History of Saltburn: Saltburn by Sea: 1983-: 98-99).

Listing NGR: NZ6651221112

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