Charlesworth War Memorial

War memorial commemorating the fallen of the First and Second World Wars, standing within an area paved with sandstone flagstones and bounded by stone kerbs at a road junction. The designer of the memorial has not been identified.

MATERIALS: the memorial is made of ashlar stone.

EXTERIOR: the memorial takes the form of a truncated tapered obelisk, rising from a deep plinth. The north and south faces of the plinth have a vertical curved projection to the centre of each face, and above, on the corresponding faces of the monument shaft are fixing holes. Both may have been used to secure flagpoles or another kind of commemorative fitting. The west face of the obelisk is inscribed with the names of members of the local community who died in the First World War with the inscription: 1914-1918/ IN MEMORY/ OF THE FALLEN/ OF THIS PARISH/ (Names)/ 1939-1945/ (names). The names of those lost in the Second World are added, on the corresponding face of the plinth below.

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, 25 January 2017.