Great Cornard War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 2020. Memorial.
Great Cornard War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- unlit-brass-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 2020
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A First World War memorial, unveiled 1920, altered after the Second World War.
MATERIALS: Portland stone.
DESCRIPTION: The memorial stands in the south corner of the churchyard of the Church of St Andrew, beside the junction of Church Road and Bures Road.
The memorial comprises a small Latin cross on top of a tapering octagonal shaft with an octagonal plinth and four-stepped base. The main inscription is incised and the black-painted lettering on the south face of the upper step of the base reads: TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE / FROM THIS PARISH WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914-1918 / THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. The names of the 33 fallen are inscribed on the south-west, south and south-east faces of the plinth.
Further inscriptions on the upper step of the base commemorate those who lost their lives in the Second World War, and read: on the south-east face 1939-45 followed by five names; and on the south-west face 1939-45 and a further five names.
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