Yardley Wood War Memorial

The Yardley Wood War Memorial is located in the churchyard of Christ Church, to the west of the church. It features a stone Latin cross with a tall stone shaft, set on a stone plinth. This structure is elevated on a three-stepped base that sits on a mound. The plinth has four slate tablets, one on each side, and a fifth slate tablet is positioned on the northern face of the base, inset into two steps on that side of the mound.

The north face of the memorial bears the inscription: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS CHURCH AND PARISH WHO FELL IN TWO WORLD WARS. THEY WERE HONOURED IN THEIR GENERATION AND WERE THE GLORY OF THEIR TIME, THEIR OFFERING OF SUPREME SACRIFICE REMAINS AN ABIDING INFLUENCE TO THE WORLD’S GOOD."

The west face reads: "IS IT NOTHING TO YOU, ALL YE THAT PASS BY?"

The east face states: "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS. THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS."

The south face commemorates: "THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919 WORLD WAR TWO 1939 - 1945."

The fifth tablet on the base has an inscription in black painted letters that says: "WE WORSHIPPERS AND PARISHIONERS OF YARDLEY WOOD ASK FOR THE CHURCH'S ACCEPTANCE OF THE MEMORIAL WITHIN THE CHURCHYARD BOUNDS WITH THE SOLEMN CHARGE THAT UNDER THE GUARDIANSHIP OF THE CHURCH IT SHALL BE PRESERVED FOREVER. DEDICATED JUNE 18TH 1922." A smaller slate tablet attached to the bottom of this tablet reads: "DEDICATED 1922 RE-DEDICATED 1986."