Maxey and Deeping Gate War Memorial

First World War memorial, with a later Second World War addition.

MATERIALS: stone.

PLAN: the memorial is located on the west side of the church of St Peter.

EXTERIOR: the memorial is in the form of a floriated cross with a hexagonal shaft. It stands on a rectangular plinth with a concave chamfer which itself stands on a two-stepped hexagonal base of roughly dressed coursed stone. The north face of the plinth has the inscription ‘IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF MAXEY AND DEEPING GATE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918’. The south face of the plinth has the inscription ‘O GRAVE WHERE IS THY VICTORY?’, and the east and west faces are inscribed with the names of the fallen. Resting between the two steps of the base on the north side is a stone tablet inscribed ‘ALSO IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF ALEC MCSHANE WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-45’.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 January 2017.