Swavesey War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 2016. War memorial.
Swavesey War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- plain-window-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
First World War memorial, erected c 1920, with additions to commemorate those who fell in the Second World War and Falklands Conflict.
MATERIALS: granite.
PLAN: square on plan:
DESCRIPTION: the war memorial stands at the south-west entrance of the churchyard of the parish church of St Andrew (Grade I). It takes the form of a Latin cross and comprises a single-step base, a square plinth and a tall shaft that rises in rectangular section to a plain cross head. Inscribed on the plinth's north-east face is the First World War dedication which reads 'IN LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE FOLLOWING MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR / THEIR KING AND COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 / [names] / I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE'. The south-west face is inscribed with the later C20 dedications and reads 'IN LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939 - 1945/ [names] / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE / THE FALKLANDS 1982 / [name]
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