Glazeley War Memorial

A churchyard war memorial in the churchyard of St Bartholomew, Glazeley. C. 1920. MATERIALS and PLAN: ashlar stone, a square, tapered pier rising from an octagonal plinth with stepped platform and ball finial. DETAILS: the ball finial is set above a cube, on top of the square pier. The cube has egg and dart moulding to its top and a roll moulding to its bottom. Each face has a raised border, and raised lettering to each of the four sides, spelling ‘CHEER./FUL-/NESS’; ‘COUR./AGE’; ENDUR./ANCE’ and ‘PROW./ESS’. The plinth has an overhanging, moulded lip to its top and a projecting band to the bottom. There are rectangular panels to each side with raised lettering. That to the north western (road) side reads ‘ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS / AS A MEMORIAL / OF THE GREAT WAR / AND TO PERPETUATE THE NAMES / OF THE GALLANT MEN FROM / THE GLAZELEY DISTRICT / WHO JOINED HIS MAJESTY’S FORCES / IN DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY / 1914-1919’. The other three sides bear the names of the fallen. Below is an octagonal platform with three steps.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 23 November 2017.