Diseworth War Memorial

The Diseworth War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921. It is made of Breedon granite and features marble tablets. The memorial is situated in the churchyard wall at St Michael's and All Angels Church, which is a Grade II* listed building, immediately to the left of the churchyard entrance.

The structure is an extension of the churchyard wall, designed as a shrine with rubble stone construction. It has a central column with a triangular pediment, flanked by lower, sloping wings. Inside the upper section of the central panel, there is a marble tablet set beneath a stone lintel, which is incised with a heraldic crest and the motto 'SOUVENT ME SOUVIENT', meaning 'often I remember' or 'think of me often'.

The main area of the memorial features a recessed marble tablet with a triangular head, decorated with an incised cross surrounded by a wreath and the dates 1914 and 1918. Below this is a dedicatory inscription that reads: 'IN PROUD MEMORY OF THE DISEWORTH MEN WHO FELL IN THE / GREAT WAR, AND HAS A THANKOFFERING TO GOD FOR THE SAFE / RETURN OF SO MANY, THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED: FOUR OF THE CHURCH / BELLS WERE RECAST AND REHUNG: A FIFTH BELL WAS ADDED'.

The lower part of the memorial includes three columns: the central column lists the names of the men who died, while the two flanking columns list the names of those who fought and returned.