Urmston Memorial Cross

The memorial stands in Golden Hill Park, to the north of the Police Station and facing Crofts Bank Road. It takes the form of a tall granite Celtic cross. The front and rear faces of the cross are richly ornamented with intricate interlace patterns carved in low relief, overlain on the front face by a reversed sword. The cross rises from a tapering pedestal. That stands on a four-stepped base.

The principal 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, the later dedication reads ALSO IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939 – 1945. The rear on the pedestal is inscribed TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND COUNTRY with, to the side, LEST WE FORGET.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 23 November 2017.