St Giles' War Memorial

The St Giles war memorial, designed by the architectural practice of Bodley and Hare, takes the form of a Portland stone crucifix mounted on a square-plan plinth and an octagonal-plan two-stepped base. The south-west elevation of the cross to the corner of Castle Street and Chesterton Lane bears a bronze figure of Christ. The north-west, north-east, and south-east elevations of the plinth each bear a cast bronze plaque listing the names of seventy-four local men who fell in the First World War (1914-18). The south-west elevation of the plinth bears an inscription which reads: ’IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD / JESUS CHRIST THIS CROSS / IS SET UP AS A MEMORIAL / OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 / REMEMBER THEM IN YOUR / PRAYERS AND YOUR LIVES’. The memorial stands in the churchyard of St. Giles’ Church (listed at Grade II*), at the corner of Castle Street and Chesterton Lane.