Attleborough War Memorial

First World War memorial, 1920, with additions for later conflicts.

DESCRIPTION: Attleborough war memorial is located on a triangular traffic island at the junction of Queen’s Road with Exchange Street. It is in close proximity to the Grade II-listed building Cyprus House and the Grade II-listed Village Pump.

The memorial is of Doulton stone and takes the form of a cross bottonée above a decorative moulded collar around an octagonal shaft. This rises from an octagonal pedestal with paired lancet niches to each face carved with gothic tracery. The pedestal surmounts an octagonal plinth with moulded cap and foot; later stone plaques are affixed to each face. The whole stands on a four-stepped, octagonal base.

The plaques affixed to the plinth carry the inscriptions and names in incised lettering, painted black. The principal inscription is to the east face and reads, TO THE /GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN HONOURED/ MEMORY OF THE MEN/ OF ATTLEBOROUGH/ WHO DIED IN THE/ SERVICE OF THEIR/ COUNTRY. The names of the 101 servicemen who died are recorded on the next six plaques (following a anticlockwise direction round the memorial) with each column of names preceded by the dates 1914-1918.

The 24 names of the servicemen who died in the Second World War are listed on the south and south-east facing plaques, with each column of names preceded by the dates, 1939-1945.

A final dedication to a serviceman killed in a later conflict is also to the south-east plaque, 1950-1953/ KOREAN WAR/ (NAME).