Shawford Down War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Shawford Down War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- final-steeple-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MATERIALS: Portland stone.
DESCRIPTION: Shawford Down War Memorial comprises a double-headed Latin cross with four arms so that the cross can be viewed from all directions. The cross rises from a square plan plinth.
The inscription on the plinth reads: TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF ALL THE MEN OF THE/ EMPIRE AND ESPECIALLY OF THOSE/ FROM THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919/ THEY SOUGHT THE GLORY/ OF THEIR COUNTRY, THEY/ SEE THE GLORY OF GOD. The other faces of the plinth are incised with the names of the fallen.
The plinth is set upon a two-stepped base with an inscription to the fallen of the Second World War on the top step which reads: RE-DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE ENGRAVED ON THIS STEP/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939 – 1945/ THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. The other faces of the step are incised with the names of the fallen from the Second World War.
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