Offenham War Memorial

War memorial, erected around 1920. Designed by W H Gardiner of Evesham.

MATERIALS: carved from limestone.

DESCRIPTION: located within the churchyard of the Church of St Mary and St Milburgh (Grade II*), the war memorial comprises a small wheel cross on top of an obelisk that has raised tapered panels with convex corners. The square pedestal comprises the dado and a two-tier plinth. To each of the four sides of the dado is a raised square panel with convex corners to the top, and set beneath carved hood moulds with hemi-spherical heads. The whole is surmounted 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, on the top tier of the plinth, is the dedication LEST WE FORGET.

The other three sides of the dado record the names of the 19 men of the parish who died in the First World War. On the west face have been added the names of the five men who died in the Second World War.