Topsham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 2019. War memorial.
Topsham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- burning-thatch-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A First World War memorial, built 1920; altered after the Second World War.
MATERIALS: granite.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands in a prominent roadside location to the east of the Church of St Margaret (Grade II*).
The memorial comprises a plain Latin cross with a gently tapering octagonal shaft on a three-tiered octagonal plinth and single-stepped octagonal base.
On the upper tier of the plinth around five sides are inscribed in leaded lettering the 69 names of the fallen. On the middle tier of the plinth is inscribed THEIR NAME/ LIVETH FOR/ EVERMORE; and on the lower tier of the plinth1914 – 1918. An additional inscription in leaded lettering has the names of the 23 who were lost in World War Two on the remaining faces of the upper tier of the plinth, with the dates 1939-1945 on the lower tier.
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