Marshall War Memorial

War memorial, 1919 by G Maile and Sons Ltd. Dedicated to Walter Langley Marshall, priest of the church, and to the First World War dead of the parish and 3rd Fulham Scouts.

MATERIALS: Cornish granite.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial is located in the churchyard at the east end of the church, opposite Filmer Road. It consists of a crucifix on a rough-hewn plinth. The crucifix is approximately 3.6m high, decorated on the face with Celtic motifs and bearing a figure of Christ crucified in relief.

The front (east) face of the plinth has an, irregularly-shaped, incised tablet bearing the inscription: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF/ WALTER LANGLEY MARSHALL/ PRIEST OF THIS CHURCH,/ WHO ENTERED INTO REST, JUNE 2ND 1917./ ALSO OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH, AND OF THE 3RD/ FULHAM SCOUTS WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919./ R.I.P./ “UPON THE CRUCIFIED ONE LOOK, AND THOU SHALT READ/ WHAT WELL IS WORTH THY LEARNING.”/ “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT/ A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.”’. On the north face the inscription reads: ‘THIS MEMORIAL WAS DEDICATED/ BY THE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON/ ON THE 15TH DAY OF JULY 1919/ F COLE ROBINSON VICAR/ WE MINIFIE, WJ MCCULLY CHURCHWARDENS’.

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, 25 September 2017.