Wigginton War Memorial

The Wigginton War Memorial is a First World War memorial, with later additions for the Second World War, erected around 1920. The names of those who fell in the Second World War were added after 1945.

The memorial is made of carved limestone and is located at the corner of Hemp Lane and The Twist, next to the churchyard of the Church of St Bartholomew and at the crossroads in the center of Wigginton.

It stands on a semi-circular stone rubble foundation with an ashlar coping, which is accessed by stone steps flanked by two ashlar columns. The memorial features a limestone cross with a Celtic head and a tapering shaft that rises from a tapering plinth and a four-stepped base. On the southwest face of the plinth is a brass plaque with the inscription honoring the men of the parish who gave their lives for freedom and right in the Great War from 1914 to 1918, listing 25 names of the Fallen. The ashlar columns to the northwest and southeast each hold bronze plaques inscribed with the names of those who served, and the columns have moulded recesses and coping. Additionally, on the riser of the top step of the memorial's base is a bronze plaque listing 11 names of those who died during the Second World War, beneath the dates 1939 to 1945.