Hinton War Memorial

War memorial cross, c1920, by Farmer and Brindley.

MATERIALS: the memorial is constructed from Portland stone.

DESCRIPTION: a Celtic wheel cross with a tapering square shaft, standing upon a plinth with two steps. The front of the cross faces north-east, and the head and neck have intricate relief mouldings of Celtic knots and flower heads. The plinth has an incised inscription: ‘THIS CROSS IS ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS / OF HINTON IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE / CONNECTED WITH THIS VILLAGE WHO SACRIFICED / THEIR LIVES IN DEFENCE OF THEIR KING AND / COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-1919 / THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD / AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN / AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING / WE WILL REMEMBER THEM’. Above, on the shaft, are the names of the 15 men who dies in the conflict, and beneath, the inscription ‘1939-1945’ and the names of the two men who died in the Second World War.

The cross stands on a paved square base and is enclosed by a chain fence with four tapering square posts on each side.