Shackleford and Peper Harow War Memorial

The war memorial stands in a prominent location on a crossroads in Shackleford close to the Church of St Mary (listed Grade II). It comprises a limestone cross on an octagonal shaft set on an octagonal plinth on a two-stepped base. Around the plinth is inscribed with Celtic-style lettering: IN/ GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF/ THE/ MEN OF SHACKLEFORD/ AND/ PEPER HAROW/ WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918. On all four longer sides of the octagonal plinth are inserted granite tablets inscribed with the names of 23 men who lost their lives in the war with their regiments, the lettering painted.

The first step of the octagonal base comprises an integral stone trough which has inscribed on the south face: THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE. The other faces are plain although it appears that the lettering has been removed on the east face.

The memorial sits in an octagonal paved enclosure formed of low walls on five sides of Bargate stone with York stone coping and open on the south side where it is accessed by two steps.

On each end terminus of the wall, granite tablets have been fixed inscribed with 1939-1945 and with the names of five men who lost their lives in the Second World War underneath.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 5 December 2016.