Pirton War Memorial

Pirton War Memorial was unveiled in April 1920 and designed by G Maile and Son of Euston Road, London. The memorial is approximately 3 metres tall, square in plan, and consists of a roughly-hewn granite stone obelisk on a chamfered-topped plinth, which is set above a base and a two-stepped platform. The plinth features four cast-bronze tablets; three of these list the names of 30 men who died in the First World War (1914-18), while the fourth bears the inscription ‘IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / DURING THE WAR / 1939-1945’, along with the names of six individuals who fell in the Second World War. The tablets were added after the Second World War, with the three commemorating the First World War covering the original names inscribed in the granite by stonemasons in 1920. In 2009, the Pirton War Memorial Group added new steps, stone borders, gates, and wooden fences to the memorial. It is located about 40 metres from the Church of St Mary, on the north side of the churchyard facing Crab Tree Lane.