Bicker War Memorial

The memorial is located within a wrought-iron fenced island at the junction of Church Road, Monument Road, High Street and School Lane, facing north-west towards the centre of the village. It is a stone monument in the style of a traditional Lincolnshire wayside cross, with a square, three-stepped base. Polished granite plaques are fixed to the uppermost block. Standing on this block is a hexagonal plinth with broach stops, and shield devices carved in relief on the four corners. Running around the memorial clockwise from the eastern corner, the shields are carved with the inscriptions PRO PATRIA, PRO REGE, and PRO DEO, with the final shield being illegible.

Rising from this plinth is a hooded Calvary cross with a hexagonal tapering shaft. The hooded cross-head rises from a moulded collar. The image of Christ on the Cross is carved on the north-western face of the memorial, with the Madonna and Child on the south-eastern side.

The inscriptions, in black-painted incised lettering, are located on the granite plaques. The north-western panel is inscribed IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF/ THOSE OF BICKER WHO FELL IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ AUG. 1914 - NOV 1918/ (13 NAMES). The south-eastern panel is inscribed DIED AT HOME/ FROM THE EFFECTS OF WAR/ (3 NAMES). The north-eastern panel is inscribed 1939-45/ (4 NAMES). The south-western panel is blank.

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 September 2017.