Caythorpe Memorial Cross

The war memorial is located on a green to the west of the entrance to the churchyard of the Grade I-listed Parish Church of St Vincent, and stands south of a stone wall, which curves in a semi-circle around the memorial. The War Memorial faces south, and is enclosed by ornamental metal posts carrying a spiked chain.

The Portland Stone memorial is modeled on Sir Reginald Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice, with differences in the treatment of the foot of the cross shaft and the pedestal. It stands on an octagonal platform, with an octagonal base, octagonal pedestal, and Latin cross. A reversed sword in bronze is fixed to the front face of the cross.

The principal dedicatory inscription, in black lettering on the front of the pedestal and running onto the base below, reads: IN/ GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF MEN OF THIS/ PARISH WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES FOR/ THEIR COUNTRY/ 1914-1919/ ALSO/ 1939-45. Three stone tablets are fixed to the base. The first, on the front of the memorial, has the inscription 1939-1945/ (4 NAMES). Two additional tablets are fixed on the face of the base to the east. Each records one name. The uppermost has the inscription IRAQ 2003, whilst the one below reads IRAQ 2005.

The curved wall to the rear of the memorial is in coursed stone with brick coping. The stone plaque fixed to the wall reads: TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY 1914 – 1919 / (23 NAMES).