Tacolneston War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 2020. War memorial.
Tacolneston War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- plain-pier-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
First World War memorial, about 1920 with names added after the Second World War.
MATERIALS: stone.
DESCRIPTION: Tacolneston war memorial is located in the churchyard of the Grade I listed All Saints Church. It is prominently situated to the left of the churchyard entrance and visible from the main road passing by. It comprises a stone Latin cross with downturned bronze sword of sacrifice to the face, on an octagonal shaft with moulded foot, atop an octagonal plinth and three-stepped octagonal base. It is in the style of Sir Reginald Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice. The plinth bears the inscriptions in incised and blackened lettering.
It reads: TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE GIVER OF ALL VICTORY AND IN GRATEFUL/ REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN OF TACOLNESTON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919/ (NAMES)/ ALSO IN PROUD AND GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945/ (NAMES)
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