Pict's Cross War Memorial

War memorial, erected in around 1920.

MATERIALS: constructed of granite. The inscriptions are of incised lettering, painted black.

DESCRIPTION: located on the south-west corner of the cross roads at Pict’s Cross the war memorial comprises a large, roughly hewn, cross with splayed arms. The cross surmounts a tapered square shaft and stands on a tapered pedestal.

To the base of the north-east face of the shaft is a recessed panel with the inscription:

FOR / GOD, KING / AND / COUNTRY / 1914 -1918

The names of the 15 men who died in the First World War are recorded on a recessed panel to the dado of the pedestal.

The central section of the north-east face of the plinth has been cut away to form a sloped panel with the inscription:

1939 – 1945 / (NAMES) / - SELLACK -

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the war memorial is approached via two stone steps and is enclosed on three sides by a snecked stone wall with two rows of upright coping stones. The side walls slope down towards the road. To each side of the north-east face of the war memorial, set at an angle, is a chamfered stone.