Wapley War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 April 2015. War memorial.
Wapley War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- salt-lintel-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 April 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A war memorial by the sculptor J Dawson, erected in the early 1920s in the churchyard of St Peter's Church in Wapley, in memory of the men of the parish who lost their lives whilst serving their country in the First World War.
The memorial, constructed in granite with a total height of c3.5 m, comprises a Latin cross set on a tapering shaft, positioned on a three tiered rectangular base surmounting a rectangular low plinth.
The front of the base is polished and inscribed with leaded lettering reading:
ERECTED TO THE MEMORY / OF THE FALLEN / OF THIS PARISH / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 / (Names)/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS.
Below, set in the left-hand corner of the plinth, is a small marble plaque with leaded lettering reading:
J. DAWSON / SCULPTOR / DOWNEND
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 11 January 2017.
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