Alfrick War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 2015. A Modern War memorial.
Alfrick War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tall-stair-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Period
- Modern
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A village War Memorial of c. 1920.
MATERIALS & PLAN: limestone ashlar with octagonal platform and square upper body.
DESCRIPTION: the principal front faces north-east. The cross is square in section with raised corners and a long shaft. It has carved foliage ornament to the ends of the arms and a figure of Christ crucified. The plinth is also square in section and has moulding to the angles at the top. The following, inscribed wording runs around the tops of all four sides, starting at the north-east side: ‘TO THE GLORY / OF GOD : WE HAVE COME / THROUGH THE : VALLEY OF SHADOWS / AND WE HAVE : WON TO THE / LIGHT AGAIN’. Names of the fallen are inscribed on all four sides. To the bottom of the north-east side is also inscribed ‘WE REMEMBER THE COST / OF OUR RANSOM’ and immediately below this is an angled plaque which records the fallen from the Second World War. The stepped, octagonal platform rises from the lawn surrounding the monument.
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, 25 July 2017.
This entry was subject to a Minor Spatial Amendment on 11 September 2017.
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