Codnor Park and Ironville War Memorial

War memorial, erected in 1923. Built by Mr Edward Cope of Riddings.

MATERIALS: of roughly-hewn granite, with lead lettering, painted black.

DESCRIPTION: located to the south side of the tower of Christ Church (Grade II) the war memorial comprises a Celtic-style wheel cross with a tapered shaft. It is mounted on a tapered rectangular plinth, with a two-stepped square base. The whole is set on a flat square platform. On the south face of the cross head and shaft is a sword, carved in relief, with three ball clusters to the pommel and ends of the cross guard. The inscriptions, in lead lettering, are on the south face of the memorial in recessed panels.

At the base of the shaft the inscription reads 1914 / THEY DIED / THAT WE / MIGHT LIVE / 1918. On the plinth below are inscribed the names of the thirty-five men of the parish who died during the First World War. Beneath, the date 1939 – 1945 has been added along with the names of the nine men that died during the Second World War. To the top step of the base is inscribed “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS.”

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a path of cut paving stones extends from the south side of the memorial to the boundary wall, which it continues alongside until it reaches the south gateway.