Kidlington and Hamlets War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 2016. Memorial.
Kidlington and Hamlets War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- silver-pilaster-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MATERIALS: limestone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial comprises a wheel-head cross decorated with Celtic-style knot work carved in shallow relief surmounting a tapering shaft.
The shaft is set upon a square tapering plinth with dedications in lead lettering on the south face reading: TO/ THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ THE IMMORTAL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ KIDLINGTON/ AND ITS HAMLETS/ WHO NOBLY FOUGHT AND FELL/ IN THE GREAT WARS/ 1914 – 18 and 1939 – 45. Below carved in relief are the words: LEST WE FORGET.
The east and west sides of the plinth carry 40 names.
Twenty-one names from the Second World War, one name from the Malayan crisis and one from the Falklands war are incised onto the northern side of the plinth.
The plinth is set upon a three-stepped square base.
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