Fulbeck War Memorial

The Fulbeck War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled and dedicated in 1921, with additions for the Second World War. It was designed by WS Weatherley of London and built by Messrs Earp and Hobbs Ltd of London and Manchester.

Constructed from limestone with a Portland stone base, the memorial has a square plan. It is located at the east end of St Nicholas’s churchyard, next to the boundary wall and railings along Cliff Road. The memorial is designed in a Gothic Revival style, resembling a medieval lantern cross. It features a two-stepped base supporting a square plinth with incised inscriptions on all four sides. The dedicatory inscription on the east face reads, “TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE / FROM THIS PARISH WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR / THEIR COUNTRY IN / THE GREAT WAR OF / 1914 – 1919 / AND ALSO IN THE WORLD WAR / 1939 – 1945.” The names of the fallen are inscribed on the other three faces.

Atop the plinth is the octagonal base of a 13th-century churchyard cross, from which a tall shaft rises, tapering in octagonal section to a lantern cross head. Each face of the cross head features four traceried niches, which contain relief carvings of the Crucified Christ on the east side, St George and the Dragon on the west side, a running vine on the south side, and the Rose of Sharon on the north side.