St Clement's War Memorial

First World War memorial, likely to have been unveiled in the early 1920s.

MATERIALS: constructed of granite.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial takes the form of a Celtic wheel-head cross which stands on a rectangular, tapered plinth and two-stepped base. The cross head and the shaft are decorated with Celtic-style interlace carvings. The N and S faces of the arms of the cross each feature a carved fleur-de-lis motif. The plinth is inscribed on the N face with IN/ GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ THE PARISH AND CONGREGATION/ OF S. CLEMENT’S/ WHO FELL WHILE SERVING IN/ THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR/ 1914-1919. The W face of the plinth features the names of the 66 men from the community who lost their lives during the First World War. The S face is inscribed with ‘‘GREATER LOVE/ HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS’’/ S. JOHN XV 13.

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, 6 June 2017.