Havant War Memorial

War memorial, erected 1922, designed jointly by architects Sir Charles Archibald Nicholson Bart, M.A. F.R.I.B.A. and Alfred Edwin Stallard F.S.I. The memorial stands within a semi-circular paved space enclosed to the rear by a screen wall that is set back into the north-east corner of the churchyard of St Faith’s Church; it faces out into the cross roads at the centre of Havant.

Constructed of light coloured limestone, it is approximately 6m tall and takes the form of a tapering octagonal column surmounted by a cross. The column is mounted on an engaged gothic-style plinth with carved quatrefoil panels, raised on an engaged gothic-style splayed base with carved paired lancet panels. The semi-circular screen wall has a shallow plinth and is constructed of knapped flint with limestone ashlar dressings, with knapped flint panels.

The wall is inscribed ‘REMEMBER THE MEN OF HAVANT WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY 1914-19’. ‘1939-45’ is also inscribed on the screen wall, to either side of the cross above the plinth. Both ends of the wall terminate in a buttress; the north-western buttress has an attached bronze panel. Eight bronze panels record the roll of honour of 103 men who died during the First World War and six secondary panels record the 50 men who died in the Second World War.

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, 6 December 2016.