Sprowston St Cuthbert War Memorial

The Sprowston St Cuthbert War Memorial is a tribute to those who fell in the First and Second World Wars, believed to have been constructed around 1979. It is the third memorial on this site, replacing a 1938 memorial, which itself replaced a temporary memorial from 1919.

The memorial is made of brick, with elements and detailing in stone, flint, and bronze. It is situated at the entrance driveway of St Cuthbert’s Church in Sprowston, Norfolk. The structure features an L-shaped, asymmetrically curved wall made from rubble stone, brick, tile, and flint, standing on a red brick plinth. The main section of the wall on the left has a curved upper section resembling an eyebrow, which contains three brick-framed panels with cast bronze plaques. The top of the wall is finished with tile creasing and half-round red clay copings.

The central bronze plaque lists the names of those who died in the First World War, while the smaller plaques on either side commemorate those who fell in the Second World War. Below the names on the central plaque is an epitaph. Small terracotta crosses are set into the wall beside the flanking plaques. Additionally, there is a built-in seat on the right side of the memorial, enclosed by a low return section of the wall.

The central panel inscription reads ‘1914-1918 / MEN / OF / SPROWSTON / (NAMES)’. The inscriptions on the flanking plaques read ‘1939-1945 (NAMES)’. The epitaph states ‘WE WILL REMEMBER THEM’.