Chatteris War Memorial

War memorial and associated railings, unveiled in 1920, designed by W Samuel Weatherley and sculpted by Messrs. A Robinson & Son, dedicated to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars.

The limestone war memorial takes the form of a cross and square-plan lantern atop an octagonal-plan tapered pillar, square-plan plinth, and octagonal-plan base and two-step platform. The platform is bounded by a semi-circular paved area (re-paved c2010), enclosed by wrought-iron railings.

To the rear (east) of the memorial, a tripartite plinth wall bears inscriptions of the names of 158 of the fallen of the First World War, and the north and south faces of the plinth of the memorial are inscribed with 38 names of the fallen of the Second World War. The front (west) elevation of the plinth is inscribed: ‘TO THE UNDYING MEMORY / OF THE CHATTERIS MEN / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WARS / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945’, and the rear (east) elevation reads: ‘LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND / WE FOR ENGLAND DIED’. The base is inscribed: ‘GOD GAVE THEM A GREAT THING TO DO AND THEY DID IT’; and the upper step of the platform is inscribed: ‘AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM’.

The memorial stands to the west of the Church of SS Peter and Paul (listed at Grade I), adjacent Market Hill.

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, 17 February 2017.