Woolhampton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 2017. War memorial. 3 related planning applications.
Woolhampton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- patient-gateway-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MATERIALS: Doulting stone.
DESCRIPTION: Woolhampton War Memorial is located in St Peter’s churchyard. It consists of a Latin cross surmounting an octagonal shaft rising from a square plinth.
On three sides of the memorial the lettering is inscribed onto the face of the plinth, and on one side the lettering is in relief with a figure of a soldier and a sailor with arms reversed standing either side of the inscription, which reads: IN HONOUR / OF THE MEN / OF / WOOLHAMPTON / WHO DIED IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918 / AND THE / 1939 – 1945 WAR / (NAMES). Further names are inscribed on the other two faces and on the rear face of the plinth is a further inscription which reads: “THEY PASSED OUT / OF THE SIGHT OF / MEN BY THE PATH / OF DUTY AND SELF / SACRIFICE” / 1939 – 1945 WAR / (NAMES).
The plinth is set upon a square two-stepped base.
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