Great Witley War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 2019. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Great Witley War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tattered-hearth-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
First World War memorial, early 1920s, with later additions for the Second World War.
MATERIALS: constructed from limestone.
PLAN: the memorial stands on the roadside, on the northern boundary of the burial ground.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial comprises a Latin cross with chamfered edges, mounted on a tapering octagonal shaft, upon a square plinth and three-stepped base. The main inscription is in incised lettering on the north face of the plinth; it reads: ‘IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF THIS PLACE / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR US / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 / AND IN / 1939 – 1945’. The names of 20 fallen parishioners are inscribed on the south face of the plinth.
Detailed Attributes
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