Morcott War Memorial

First World War memorial.

MATERIALS: marble.

PLAN: the memorial is located in the cemetery which faces the High Street.

EXTERIOR: the memorial is in the form of a Celtic cross embellished with a raised interlaced pattern. The rectangular panelled shaft stands on a two-tiered base surrounded by a kerb with shallow square caps at each corner. On the east face of the memorial the bottom of the shaft is inscribed ‘TO THE/ GLORY OF GOD’, and the higher base is inscribed ‘AND IN/ PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THOSE WHO DIED FOR THEIR/ COUNTRY IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914-1919’. The lower base is inscribed with the names of the fallen. The west side of the lower base is inscribed ‘ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION, NOVEMBER 1919’, and the higher base is inscribed ‘SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945’ with the name of the fallen.