Marston War Memorial

First World War Memorial, 1920, by A & S Senior Monumental Masons of Northwich.

MATERIALS: sandstone.

PLAN: square plan form.

DESCRIPTION: the freestanding memorial stands in the churchyard south of Marston Church Hall. It comprises a Celtic cross, ornamented with a stone sword of sacrifice, which rests on a chamfered base incised with a heraldic shield (a bend sinister, dexter plant, sinister two ivy leaves) and the words: (front face) TO THE GLORY OF GOD / IN MEMORY OF. It rests on a large tapered and chamfered rectangular plinth with the names of (front face) the 27 Marston servicemen who lost their lives in the First World War and (left, north, return) ten Marston servicemen who lost their lives in the Second World War. The tapered plinth rises from two square chamfered plinths, the upper with the words incised: (front face) WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918 (left return) WHO FELL IN 1939 – 1945. The memorial is raised on a single-stepped flagged base and stands 3.8 m high. It is enclosed by eight bollards and a chain; the front left corner bollard is incised with the mason's signature SENIOR / NORTHWICH.