Mayfield War Memorial

MATERIALS: Purbeck stone, bronze plaques.

DESCRIPTION: Mayfield War Memorial stands in a gap between the buildings on the north side of the High Street, in line with the south porch of the Grade I-listed parish Church of St Dunstan. It comprises a cross botonée rising from the moulded collar of a tall, tapering octagonal shaft. The cross shaft’s splayed foot stands on the corniced plinth, octagonal in plan. The plinth stands on three octagonal steps.

A crenellated bronze plaque to the front face of the plinth carries the principal dedicatory inscription. Beneath a wreath, the dedication reads IN EVER-GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF/ MAYFIELD/ WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR KING/ AND COUNTRY IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ IN THE MORNING WE/ WILL REMEMBER AND/ AT THE GOING DOWN/ OF THE SUN WE WILL/ NOT FORGET. Commemorated names are recorded on the plinth’s other faces, incised into the stone below small bronze wreaths fixed to the top of each face. A bronze plaque has been added to base which reads AND OF THOSE WHO/FELL IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945, with names on the adjacent faces.

The cross is surrounded by a crazy-paving pavement, with rubble stone retaining walls on three sides.

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, 29 January 2018.