Downend Boy Scouts' War Memorial

A war memorial, unveiled in November 1921 and built and possibly designed by Mr J Dawson (builder), commemorating boy scouts from the 1st Downend Troop who fell in the First World War. The monument is of rock-hewn stone with a bronze plaque and inset, bronze lettering.

The monument is in the form of an obelisk which rises from a plinth of two steps which rests on a square platform. To the apex is a stone cross. There is a deep, projecting string course roughly half way up the obelisk, with a cyma moulding to the underside and a curved upper surface. Above this on the south-west face is a circular plaque showing the Fleur-de-lis of the Boy Scouts movement. Below the string course is an inscription which reads ‘1st DOWNEND TROOP / BOY SCOUTS. / TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919 / (Names)’. On the upper step of the plinth is inscribed ‘CALLED TO HIGHER SERVICE’. The other sides of the monument are without decoration, save for the continuous string course.

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, 11 January 2017.