Ingham War Memorial

Ingham war memorial was completed in November 1919, built by Hanchets monumental masons to the designs of Rev W A Wickham. The granite stone monument, which stands approximately 4 metres in height, takes the form of a Latin cross with an octagonal tapered shaft positioned on an octagonal step surmounting a square-plan plinth and platform. The collar of the tapered shaft, beneath the cross, features carved detail of a crown with floral motifs. The principal face of the plinth bears a recessed panel inscribed with the epitaph, ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PERPETUAL MEMORY OF SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR (1914 - 1919) 8 OF THEM DIED IN THE AMPTON RED CROSS HOSPITAL AND ONE OF THEM IN THE LEWISHAM HOSPITAL THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE’ along with the names of the nine who fell.

The memorial is set to the south of the Church of St Bartholomew (listed Grade II*; NHLE 1031246) and is prominently positioned in the southern portion of the churchyard to the north of the Old Rectory, which was built c1850 (listed Grade II; NHLE 1198734).

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 10 August 2017.