Darsham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 2018. War memorial.
Darsham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- still-latch-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tall memorial stands in the churchyard, outside the west wall of the Church of All Saints (Grade I-listed). It is carved from white Sicilian marble. The memorial comprises a Latin cross rising from the moulded collar of a tapering octagonal shaft. The cross head is ornamented with a small cross floretty carved in low relief. The cross shaft stands on a five-stepped base.
The main inscription in applied metal lettering on the west face of the stepped base reads
(top step) THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919 (second step) IN HONOURED MEMORY/ OF OUR FALLEN/ HEROES (third step) (5 NAMES) (fourth step) (11 NAMES)/ “THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.”
A further inscription in raised leaded lettering on the south face of the stepped base reads
(second step) THE WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945/ IN MEMORY OF (third step) (4 NAMES)/ “THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.”
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