Bishopswood War Memorial

First World War memorial, 1921, with later additions for the Second World War.

DESCRIPTION: Bishopswood War Memorial is located to the north side of the B4234 to the corner of a field.

It takes the form of a sandstone Latin cross above a carved collar on chamfered shaft. A carved lozenge is inset to the centre of the cross. The shaft rises from a square plinth with chamfered top corners, which surmounts a three-stepped stone base.

The First World War inscription is incised to the front (south) face of the plinth and reads: ERECTED/ BY THE PARISHIONERS/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE WAR 1914 – 1919/ IS IT NOTHING TO YOU/ ALL YE THAT PASS BY. The names of those who died are listed directly below, incised into the top two steps of the base.

A stone plaque with the names of those who died following the Second World War is set into a wall below the memorial cross.

The memorial is situated on a terraced platform of roughly-coursed stone. This is enclosed and flanked by roughly-coursed stone walls with flat stone coping. The memorial is approached to both sides by steps; those leading up to the lower level facing east-west and those leading up to the memorial facing north-south.