Colwall War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 2018. War memorial.
Colwall War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- outer-arch-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A First World War memorial, 1920, with later additions for the Second World War.
MATERIAL: Portland stone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands within a memorial garden to the south-east of the Church of St James the Great (Grade II*). It comprises a three-stepped octagonal base, a pedestal, and a tapering octagonal shaft surmounted by a stone calvary cross with a pitched canopy. The memorial is set upon a square, concrete platform. At the foot of the shaft on its east face are the letters RIP.
The east face of the pedestal carries the inscription: HONOUR THE BRAVE/ WHO FROM THIS PARISH/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914–1918/ MADE THE SUPREME/ SACRIFICE FOR THEIR/ COUNTRY/ AND FOR HUMANITY.
The west face is inscribed: “ALL THEY HAD HOPED FOR/ ALL THEY HAD THEY GAVE TO/ SAVE MANKIND THEMSELVES/ THEY SCORNED TO SAVE.”/ GRANT THEM, O LORD/ ETERNAL REST AND LET/ LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE/ UPON THEM.
The 49 names of the fallen are recorded on the six other faces of the pedestal.
A further inscription has been added to the upper section of the pedestal: (east face) 1939–1945; (west face) THEIR NAME LIVETH/FOR EVERMORE/ ECCLESIASTICUS XLIV.14. The names of 13 parishioners who died in the Second World War are inscribed on the six other faces.
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