Hesketh Bank War Memorial

The Hesketh Bank War Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the First and Second World Wars, erected around 1920, with the names of those who fell in the Second World War added after 1945.

Carved from granite, the memorial is located in the churchyard of All Saints Church, immediately to the west of the church tower. It features a granite Celtic cross adorned with raised interlace and knotwork, which is set on a tapering shaft that rises from a quarry-faced plinth on a two-tiered square base. The cross and shaft stand approximately 1.5 meters high, while the plinth is about 1 meter high.

On the front (west) face of the plinth, there is an incised lead inscription that reads: "THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THE/ PARISHIONERS OF HESKETH-WITH-BECCONSALL/ IN GRATEFUL/ AND AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE/ OF THEIR BROTHERS/ NAMED ABOVE WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919./ AND ALSO IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945/ WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE/ THEY CHOSE THE BEST/ THEY SPRANG TO DUTY'S CALL/ THEY STOOD THE TEST./ 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.'" The names of those who died are inscribed in lead lettering on the front of the shaft.

Surrounding the memorial is a stone kerb that forms an enclosure approximately 3 meters square, featuring four pyramid-capped stone posts at the corners, inscribed with the years 1914, 1919, and 1939, 1945.