Stony Stratford War Memorial Cross

The Stony Stratford War Memorial Cross is an approximately 6-meter tall memorial made of Doulting stone, located in a Garden of Remembrance on Horsefair Green. It is surrounded by several Grade II-listed buildings and the Grade II*-listed Burnham House. The memorial features a foliated and raguly cross-head that rises from a moulded collar on a tapering cross shaft, which is octagonal in section. The front face of the cross-head displays a small bronze reversed sword. The shaft widens into a square stem with a moulded foot, resting on a capped pedestal. This pedestal is set on a four-stepped, octagonal base.

The front face of the cross stem is decorated with a shield that bears a cross, carved in low relief. Below this shield, a bronze plaque is embedded in the stonework, listing 46 names of those who fell in the First World War. A similar plaque on the opposite side also records another 46 names.

The edges of the front and rear faces of the pedestal are designed as engaged columns that flank bronze plaques. The main dedicatory inscription on the northeast side reads: "+ TO THE GLORY/ OF GOD./ IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THOSE OF THIS TOWN/ WHO FELL IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918." The southwest plaque commemorates "ALSO/ IN MEMORY OF/ (18 NAMES)/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE WAR/ 1939 – 1945."