Pendeen War Memorial

The Pendeen War Memorial is a First World War memorial dedicated in 1920 and altered after the Second World War. It is made of granite and features a wheel-head cross on a tapering base and plinth, surrounded by stone posts and metal railings on three sides. The principal face of the shaft is inscribed with the words: ‘IN / LOVING MEMORY / OF ALL THOSE / WHO WENT FORTH / FROM THE / PARISH OF PENDEEN / AND ESPECIALLY / OF THOSE WHO / LAID DOWN THEIR / LIVES IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919 / FOR THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY / AND RIGHTEOUSNESS / "THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE". Below this inscription, the names of 28 parishioners who lost their lives in the First World War are listed, including two noted as missing and a nurse. The back of the plinth bears the inscription ‘DEDICATED / BY THE / LORD BISHOP OF TRURO / JUNE 19 1920’.

After World War Two, the front railing was removed to make way for a stone slab with a simple raised shield that commemorates the eight men who fell in that conflict, marked with the heading ‘1939-1945 / IN THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE’. The granite used for the memorial was likely quarried at Carn Earnes, located on the hill adjacent to the church and its cemetery.