Dullingham War Memorial

A First World War memorial, dedicated in 1920, with further names added after the Second World War.

MATERIALS: stone and concrete.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial is situated in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary, to the west of the tower. It is a tall Celtic wheel cross on a tapering base raised on two stone steps set on a concrete foundation pad. The east and west faces of the cross are covered in carving.

The west face lower panel features six bosses with intertwined serpents, above which are four figure-scenes: a group of four figures, seated musicians, Abraham's sacrifice and Daniel between two lions. The centre of the cross features a roundel of the seated Virgin and Child with leonine beasts in the side arms and three pairs of back-to-back leonine beasts with intertwined tails in the top arm. The face of the cross ring is undecorated.

The lower part of the east face features three roundels of snake-and-boss ornament above which are seven interlaced bosses with snakes issuing from and intertwined around them. The largest of these bosses is also one of five high-relief bosses symmetrically placed in the cross head. That at the centre of the cross is set in a ring of nine small bosses linked by spirals. In the side-arms each boss is linked by snakes while that in the top arm lies between two pairs of leonine beasts. The face of the cross ring is decorated with knitted interlace.

A dedication on the east side of the base reads: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN NEVER DYING MEMORY/ OF THOSE DULLINGHAM SOLDIERS/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914 – 19’. Below this is a quotation: ‘THAT WE BEING DELIVERED OUT OF THE/ HAND OF OUR ENEMIES MIGHT SERVE HIM/ WITHOUT FEAR ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIFE’. The names of the fallen of the First World War are inscribed on the north and south sides and of the Second World War on the west.