Salhouse War Memorial

First World War memorial, erected c1920, with Second World War additions.

MATERIALS: of stone.

DESCRIPTION: the war memorial stands on a grass verge on the east side of Bell Lane, immediately to the west of the churchyard to the Church of All Saints (listed Grade I). It comprises an elaborately carved Celtic wheel-head cross which is embellished with the relief carvings of the head of Christ and a cross at its centre. Each arm has a symbolic image carved on to it, presumed to be of a rose, an iris, a vine and a passion flower, and at the top there is a small, ridged canopy. The shaft has a further three panels of relief carving, each being a different style of Celtic knot-work. Beneath, the trapezoidal plinth has a moulded cap which bears the first word of the inscription, with the rest of the inscription being inserted onto the main body of the plinth. Below this is a two-stepped base. The whole structure stands on a concrete foundation.

The First World War dedicatory inscription is inscribed on the plinth’s moulded cap and south-west face and reads ‘ERECTED / BY THE PARISHIONERS OF SALHOUSE / IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF THE / MEN WHO FELL DURING THE GREAT WAR / 1914 TO 1919 / [Names] / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE’.

On the plinth's north-east face is the Second World War dedication which is inscribed ‘1939 TO 1945 / [Names]’.