Sutton Courtenay War Memorial

War memorial, 1920, designed by Colonel HE Morgan Lindsay, and built by Henry Cooper.

MATERIALS: box-ground Bath stone with a Forest of Dean stone cross.

PLAN: the memorial is square on plan and stands on a paved area on the Green to the west of the Church of All Saints.

DESCRIPTION: a tapering square obelisk surmounted by a cross, with moulded detailing. Each face of the shaft has an indented panel containing a commemorative inscription. That to the east states ‘IN COMMEMORATION / OF THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918 / THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES’ followed by the names and regiments of the 25 fallen soldiers. Beneath this are the names of six men missing in action; the last of these is amended to record his death in Mesopotamia. At the bottom, a dedication to the Second World War has been added: ‘AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED IN THE WAR OF / 1939 1945 / AND LATER CONFLICTS’.

The western face records the names of the men who ‘SERVED OVERSEAS’, and the south face records those who ‘SERVED AT HOME’. The north face records those ‘WOUNDED’.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 January 2018.