Holbrook War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 2019. War memorial.
Holbrook War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-threshold-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
First World War memorial, 1921, with Second World War additions.
MATERIAL: rough-hewn Cornish granite.
DESCRIPTION: Holbrook War Memorial stands on a prominent roadside on the east side of Church Hill, at the junction with Hyams Lane, immediately to the west of the Church of All Saints (listed Grade II*).
The memorial comprises a plain Celtic wheel-head cross atop a tall shaft that tapers in rectangular section from a trapezoidal plinth standing on a four-stepped base, the whole standing on a single-stepped concrete foundation stone.
The main dedicatory inscription is in leaded lettering on the polished west face of the plinth and reads: TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF HOLBROOK / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914–1918 / [Names].
On the plinth's south face is the Second World War dedication which reads: 1939 - 1945 / [Names].
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