Minshull Vernon cum Leighton War Memorial

First World War memorial of the 1920s, designer unknown.

MATERIALS: built of local red sandstone.

PLAN: the memorial stands on two square stone steps, and above this comprises a tapering, square obelisk.

DESCRIPTION: standing on open land at the junction of Middlewich Road and Eardswick Lane, surrounded by a small garden. The obelisk is divided into three stages by stone bands with cavetto mouldings, and is of regularly-coursed, rock-faced blocks. The centre stage does not taper, and panelled recesses with a dressed margin around them fill each face. The E face contains a slate plaque with an incised and filled inscription reading:

PARISH OF/ LEIGHTON CUM/ MINSHULL VERNON/ IN GLORIOUS MEMORY/ OF THOSE WHO DIED/ FOR FREEDOM/ AND IN HONOUR/ OF ALL WHO SERVED/ THEIR KING AND COUNTRY/ 1914 - 1918

On the W face is a similar plaque listing the twelve names of the fallen, with no military or other information.

The N and S faces contain plaques inscribed:

(S) IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING RAF CREW/ WHO DIED IN THIS PARISH:/ 4TH FEBRUARY 1941/ ON WELLINGTON R1298/ , followed by ten names, and

(N) IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING RAF CREW/ WHO DIED IN THIS PARISH:/ 20TH MARCH 1943/ ON WELLINGTON X3547/, followed by eight names, and

ON OXFORD DF477/, followed by four names.

The lower band on the E face contains a quarter-spherical stone basin with the remains of a metal drinking fountain above.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 26 January 2017.