Hauxton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 2015. War memorial.
Hauxton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- dusted-gateway-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The memorial stands close to the road in the churchyard of St Edmund’s parish church (listed Grade I). It is a 3m tall limestone cross with a wheel cross-head, with the wheel formed by a laurel wreath. The tapering octagonal shaft rises from a square plinth. On the south face of the plinth is inscribed IN MEMORY OF THE/ MEN WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ ALSO/ THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939 – 1945
On the other faces are inscribed:
(west) TO/ THE GLORY OF/ GOD.
(north) THEIR REWARD IS WITH/ THE LORD. WISDOM V. 15.
(east) FROM THIS PARISH,/ (NAMES: five for the First World War, two for the Second)
Around the base is a narrow flower bed defined by a stone kerb.
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.
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