Upper Beeding War Memorial

War memorial, erected around 1920.

MATERIALS: carved from stone.

DESCRIPTION: located near the south-east entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Peter (Grade II*), the war memorial comprises a Latin cross with octagonal arms, on a tall, tapered octagonal shaft with broach chamfers and a square base. It is surmounted on a chamfered square pedestal, and set on a square step with chamfered corners. To each side of the pedestal are metal plaques inscribed with the names of the men that died in the First World War. The inscription on the plaque to the south face of the pedestal reads:

THIS CROSS IS ERECTED / IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION / OF THE DEVOTION OF THE / MEN OF BEEDING WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR / 1914 – 1919 / LORD ALL PITYING JESU BLEST / GRANT THEM THY ETERNAL REST