Haggerston All Saints War Memorial

First World War memorial, erected c1920.

MATERIALS: stone.

DESCRIPTION: Haggerston All Saints War Memorial is located within the churchyard of All Saints, Haggerston Road, Hackney. It stands facing W, adjacent to the porch at the W gable-end of the church, N of the short path which leads SW to Haggerston Road and the adjacent Stonebridge Common.

The stone memorial consists of a stepped square plinth and base surmounted by a Latin cross. The plinth being of five stages stands atop a square-plan single-stone step which forms the base. There is an instep with a chamfered ledge after each stage of the plinth, the fourth stage having both a moulded skirting and cornice, the fifth, being the uppermost, has a moulded cornice and battered sides, the others being otherwise smooth-dressed single stones.

The inscription is in applied lead lettering, being located on the W side of the memorial and is divided over the second and third stages of its plinth, reading:

'TO THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD / AND IN PROUD / AND THANKFUL MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF / THIS CHURCH AND PARISH / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN / THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919.'

A shaft of tapering octagonal section rises from the plinth to a two-stage moulded collar directly beneath the cross head which takes the form of a Latin cross. The vertical arm of the cross head is also of tapering section but square in plan, save for a low raised cross detail to both W and E sides. There are heavy projecting nailhead finials at the top and at the two ends of the crossbar.

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, 31 January 2018.