Winterton-on-Sea War Memorial

First World War memorial, unveiled and dedicated in 1919.

MATERIALS: of Cornish granite.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands in the churchyard to the Church of the Holy Trinity and All Saints (listed Grade I), c3.6m to the south of the church's south porch. It comprises a Celtic wheel-head cross with a tall shaft that rises and tapers in rectangular section from a trapezoidal plinth with polished surfaces for the leaded inscriptions. It stands on a single-step base of granite, below which is a two-stepped concrete sub base.

The dedicatory inscription is on the plinth's west face and reads ‘THIS MEMORIAL / WAS ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE MEN / OF THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918’. The south face records the names of 12 local servicemen who died while the north face records a further six names.