Otterbourne War Memorial

First World War Memorial erected 1920 to the designs Henry LG Hall of Winchester.

MATERIALS: Portland stone

DESCRIPTION: The memorial stands outside the boundary of the Church of St Matthew (on a green to the south-east). It takes the form of a Latin cross raised on a plinth with decorative scroll brackets. The square stepped base of the memorial features corner piers capped with orb finials and has bench seating set between on each side. The plinth carries applied-metal inscriptions, the south-eastern face reading, ‘IN MEMORIAM 1914-1918/ ERECTED AS AN EXPRESSION OF/ PROFOUND THANKFULNESS TO ALMIGHTY GOD/ FOR A WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE IN THE GREAT WAR,/ AS A TRIBUTE TO THE MEN FROM/ OTTERBOURNE AND ALLBROOK WHO SERVED/ AND IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THOSE WHO FELL/ WHOSE NAMES ARE INSCRIBED HEREON/ (names)’. The other three faces record further names (40 in total) under the inscription ‘FOR KING AND COUNTRY’. The names of the seven who fell in the Second World War are recorded on a stone tablet set against the step to the plinth of the memorial. This has the dates ‘1939’ and ‘1945’ inscribed on its ends between simple carved scrolls, but carries no additional inscription.