Urmston Memorial Cross

The Urmston Memorial Cross is located in Golden Hill Park, north of the Police Station and facing Crofts Bank Road. It is a tall granite Celtic cross, featuring richly ornamented front and rear faces with intricate interlace patterns carved in low relief. On the front face, there is a reversed sword. The cross rises from a tapering pedestal, which stands on a four-stepped base.

The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the pedestal reads "IN LASTING MEMORY OF THOSE WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918." Below this, on the front face of the deepest step of the base, there is a later dedication that states "ALSO IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945." The rear of the pedestal is inscribed with "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND COUNTRY," and to the side, it reads "LEST WE FORGET."