Bishopsgate Parish Memorial

The Portland Stone memorial cross is located in the churchyard of the church of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate (Grade II*), standing to the south of the church and west of the Grade II-listed drinking fountains and lanterns on Bishopsgate. Approximately 4m high, it comprises an ornamented wheel-head cross rising from a moulded collar bearing the monogram IHS. The octagonal cross shaft is decorated with blind arcading below the collar and above the moulded foot. The shaft stands on an octagonal plinth, which stands on a three-stepped base.

The plinth carries the inscriptions on four of the eight faces:

(east face) KITCHENER/ JUNE 5 1916/ LEST WE FORGET

(south face) IN MEMORIAM/ OFFICERS AND MEN/ OF THE/ HONOURABLE/ ARTILLERY/ COMPANY/ WHO DIED IN THE GRAT WAR/ AUGUST 4 1916

(west face) IN MEMORY OF/ OUR/ BRAVE DEAD/ OF/ BISHOPSGATE/ 1914 – 1916

(north face) JOHN TRAVERS/ CORNWELL VC/ OF/ HMS CHESTER/ THE/ BATTLE OF JUTLAND/ JUNE 1916/ HERO OF 16 YEARS

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 10 February 2017.