Offenham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 2018. War memorial.
Offenham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gentle-sandstone-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Offenham War Memorial is a war memorial erected around 1920, designed by W H Gardiner of Evesham. It is carved from limestone and is located within the churchyard of the Church of St Mary and St Milburgh, which is listed as Grade II*.
The memorial features a small wheel cross on top of an obelisk that has raised tapered panels with convex corners. The square pedestal consists of the dado and a two-tier plinth. Each of the four sides of the dado has a raised square panel with convex corners at the top, set beneath carved hood moulds with hemi-spherical heads. The entire structure is placed on a three-stepped stone platform.
The inscription on the east face of the dado reads:
IN MEMORY / OF THE OFFENHAM MEN / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / SERVING THEIR COUNTRY / DURING THE GREAT WARS / 1914 – 1919 / 1939 – 1945 / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE / FOR HIS FRIENDS 1 ST JOHN XV 13.
Beneath this inscription, on the top tier of the plinth, is the dedication LEST WE FORGET.
The other three sides of the dado list the names of the 19 men from the parish who died in the First World War, while the names of the five men who died in the Second World War are added to the west face.
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