War Memorial Approximately 17 Metres To South East Of English Lodge

The war memorial, dated 1919, is located approximately 17 metres southeast of English Lodge in Alberbury with Cardeston. Designed by Mrs. Alfred Sotheby (née Leighton), it is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a pedestal design in a free classical style. The memorial has a square base with three steps, a moulded plinth, and a cyma-recta moulded cornice adorned with egg and dart and bead and reel enrichment. The top is crowned with an octagonal aedicule supported by Ionic columns, which hold an entablature and an ogee dome topped with a cross finial, and includes an urn.

The memorial has moulded shouldered-arched recessed panels that commemorate the dead of the "1914-19" war on the east and west sides, and the "1939-45" war on the north side. The north side features a moulded recessed panel with a boss relief in the style of Burne-Jones, depicting a soldier and an angel, flanked by Ionic-type pilasters with carved foliage decoration resting on a plinth. Above this is a carved foliage frieze and a blind round arch with a moulded architrave and a carved scrolled keystone. The tympanum is inscribed with "FOR GOD/KING AND COUNTRY," while the plinth reads: "THE PEOPLE OF ALBERBURY, BAUSLEY, CARDESTON/AND WATTLESBOROUGH ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL IN 1919/IN HONOUR OF THE GLORIOUS DEAD HEREON INSCRIBED/AND IN ORDER THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS MIGHT PRAISE/THEIR GREAT GALLANTRY AND THE SACRIFICE OF THOSE WHO, SO WILLING, GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-19 AND IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945." Mrs. Sotheby was the daughter of Sir Baldwin Leighton, who died in 1897, and was significantly influenced by Burne-Jones, a family friend.