Diddlebury War Memorial

A churchyard First World War memorial of c 1920, with an additional inscription added after 1945.

MATERIALS & PLAN: limestone ashlar, with a wheel-head cross on a tapered shaft with chamfered edges which rises from a square plinth with two-stepped base. The cross is placed to the south-west of the church tower and raised above the level of the churchyard wall and the raised pavement.

The wheel-head cross has splayed ends to the arms and hollow-chamfered edges. To its base is a band of foliage in the form of a laurel wreath. The tapered shaft has hollow-chamfered edges and inset panels of stylised foliage to the lower body of the shaft on the western and eastern sides. Both east and west sides of the plinth have superimposed stone panels, presumably to replace worn original lettering beneath. That on the west side reads: LIVE THEN FOR ENGLAND / WE FOR ENGLAND DIED / IN / GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF DIDDLEBURY / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919 / MAY THEY REST IN PEACE. Names of the fallen are inscribed on the eastern panel. The corners of the plinth have roll mouldings to their vertical edges.

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, 27 July 2017.