War Memorial in the Churchyard of St Andrew's Church

MATERIALS: the memorial is constructed of coursed Triassic Mercia Mudstone rubble, a hard, fine-grained sandstone known as skerry, probably quarried locally. The large blocks were taken from the chancel of the church in the C19, and were probably cut in the C13.

PLAN: it is located on the south side of the main church gate, inserted between red brick piers belonging to the boundary wall of the church.

EXTERIOR: the memorial is in the form of a fragment of wall, measuring approximately 1.5m in width and 1.6m in height with a depth of 0.3m. The lower half is wider than the stepped upper half which is surmounted by a roughly pedimented cap and iron Celtic cross. Along one of the lower courses is carved ‘These stones were cut in the XIIIth century by the builders of this church’. A bronze plaque set in the upper half is inscribed ‘1914-1918 THESE MEN OF CAUNTON SOUGHT THE GLORY OF ENGLAND. THEY FOUND THE GLORY OF GOD’ followed by their names.

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, 24 January 2017.