Middleton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 2018. War memorial.
Middleton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- narrow-stronghold-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
First World War memorial, 1921.
MATERIALS: Sicilian marble.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands in a prominent position at the centre of the burial ground, approximately 50m to the south of the Church of the Holy Trinity (Grade II*).
The memorial comprises a plain Latin cross with an elaborately carved foot on a substantial octagonal plinth and single-stepped square base. It is carved from Sicilian marble. On the foot of the cross is a laurel wreath enclosing the inscription 1914/ 1918.
The main inscription on the plinth reads TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF/ MIDDLETON/ WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE/ GREAT WAR./ THEIR MEMORY/ LIVETH FOR/ EVERMORE.
The names of the fallen are carved on three other faces of the plinth.
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