Talaton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 2019. Memorial.
Talaton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- second-bonework-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 2019
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A First World War memorial, erected in 1922; altered after the Second World War.
MATERIALS Granite.
DESCRIPTION The memorial stands in a prominent location in the churchyard to the south of the Church of St James (Grade I), close to the Sanne headstone (Grade II) and the two Webb headstones (Grade II).
The memorial comprises a carved-granite plain Latin cross with a gently tapering octagonal shaft on a square plinth and two-stepped octagonal base. The main inscription in leaded lettering on the south face of the plinth reads: 1914-1918 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY / OF THE BRAVE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WARS followed by the names of the 13 fallen. The north face of the plinth is inscribed 1939-1945 and the names of the three men who fell in the Second World War.
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