War Memorial In South Churchyard Wall Of Church Of All Saints

MALDON

TL8407SE HIGH STREET 574-1/6/127 (North side) War memorial in south churchyard wall of Church of All Saints

GV II

First World War memorial. c1920 altered 1946. Portland stone with bronze plaque insert. Perpendicular-style memorial on 2 stone steps of octagonal plan form. Main part is an octagonal stone drum with finials to buttresses, and a crocketed ogee arch with cinquefoiled head on each face, containing a bronze plaque. Crenellated cornice and tent-like top sweeping up to small octagonal drum with cornice of Tudor-flower ornament and trefoil-headed panels. This forms base for a tapering octagonal cross shaft with cross of 4 major trefoiled arms and with 4 minor diagonal arms with smaller trefoil terminations. Memorial is set in recess of low south churchyard wall which has coping of stone, and wrought-iron railings enclosing 3 bronze plaques (one missing) commemorating 1939-45 war.

Listing NGR: TL8494107048

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 12 January 2017.