Sprowston St Cuthbert War Memorial

A memorial to the Fallen of the First and Second World Wars, thought to date to around 1979, the third such memorial, replacing an earlier memorial of 1938, itself a replacement of a temporary memorial of 1919 .

MATERIALS: the memorial is built of brick, with stone, flint and bronze elements and detailing.

DESCRIPTION: located in the entrance driveway of St Cuthbert’s Church at Sprowston in Norfolk. It takes the form of an L-shaped, asymmetrically–curved wall formed of rubble stone, brick, tile and flint standing on a red brick plinth. The main section of wall on the left-hand side has a curved eyebrow-like upper section, into which are set three brick-framed panels with cast bronze plaques. The wall has tile creasing at its head, supporting half-round red clay copings.

The tall central bronze plaque bears the names of those men who fell in the First World War, whilst the smaller flanking plaques record those who died in the Second World War. At the base of the central plaque, below the names, is an epitaph. On either side of the flanking plaques are small terracotta crosses, set into the walling. On the right-hand side of the memorial is a built-in seat, clasped by a low return section of the wall to its right.

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