The Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
The Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- narrow-iron-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST 8614 10/134
IWERNE MINSTER HIGHER STREET
The Memorial Cross
GV II
War memorial, 1920 by Giles Gilbert Scott. Doulting stone with Hopton stone dressings. Loosely follows the form of a medieval Dorset market cross (e.g. that at Stalbridge). 2 steps to monument base which itself consists of 2 steps. Plinth has polygonal corner shaft s with panelled faces and bears inscription. Shaft of triangular section, the lower part bearing shallow niches flanked by crocketted pinnacles. The western niche contains a carved figure of a soldier supported on a carved corbel. Head bears crocketted finials and contains niches with carved figures of the Crucifixion, St George and Joan of Arc. (P Anderson Graham 'Iwerne Minster before, during and after the Great War', privately printed, probably 1927).
Listing NGR: ST8655114528
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, 7 December 2016.
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