St Tudy War Memorial

First World War memorial, built 1920; altered after the Second World War.

MATERIALS: granite.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands on a grass bank at the edge of the churchyard connected to the Grade I-listed Parish Church of St Uda, facing the village square, with granite steps up to it from the road. The memorial is a wheel-head Celtic cross with carved ‘triqueta’ knotwork to the head on the front and back. It stands on a tapering shaft above a stepped and tapering plinth and a two-stepped base. The platform has a short granite post at each corner. The principal face (north east) of the plinth has inscribed in lead lettering: TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF / THE MEN OF ST TUDY / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918 / “THE DEAD SHALL HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SON OF GOD”. Below this, on the top step of the base, is inscribed “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS” / “YE THAT LIVE ON ‘MID ENGLISH PASTURES GREEN, / REMEMBER US AND THINK WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN”. The names of the fallen are inscribed on the principal face of the memorial’s shaft. The names of those who fell in the Second World War are inscribed on the bottom step of the base under the dates 1935 – 1945.