Payhembury War Memorial, including the raised platform with associated dwarf walls and steps

War memorial, erected in 1921, with the dwarf wall and steps, added to the raised platform on which it stands, in 1949.

MATERIALS: carved from granite that has been roughly hewn, and standing on a raised stone platform of crazy paving, with added dwarf walls and approach steps of Westleigh stone. The inscriptions are of painted lead lettering.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial takes the form of a chamfered granite cross set on a tapered plinth that stands on a three-step octagonal base. The inscription to the south-east face of the plinth reads:

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918 / (NAMES)

To the top step of the base are two additional names of parishioners who died as a result of the conflict. The date ‘1939-1945’ is inscribed beneath and the names of four parishioners who died in the Second World War are included on the second step.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the memorial stands on a raised stone platform with crazy paving, edged by a dwarf stone wall and approached by a flight of three steps.