Winterbourne Abbas War Memorial

First World War memorial. Erected 1920.

MATERIALS: carved from limestone with a bronze panel, resting on a brick foundation.

DESCRIPTION: the war memorial stands in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church, facing east, near the centre of Winterbourne Abbas. It is immediately north of the Grade I listed medieval church and west of the Grade II listed late C17 Wherry Cottage. The memorial comprises a rough-hewn limestone cross with Celtic head on a tapering shaft 1.3m high that rises from a trapezoidal limestone plinth 0.5m high. A bronze panel attached to the front of the plinth is inscribed TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ (NAMES)/ FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. Four names are inscribed upon it, with surname, rank, year died, regiment, place of death, age of death. The plinth rests on a square limestone base with a brick and cement foundation.

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.