Witheridge War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 2019. War memorial.
Witheridge War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- rough-stronghold-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Witheridge War Memorial is a First World War memorial built after 1919 and altered after the Second World War. It is made of granite and is located in a prominent roadside position within railings that are also listed as Grade II, situated on the southern edge of the churchyard of the Grade I-listed Church of St John the Baptist. A gate in the railings provides access, with a short flight of steps leading from the adjacent pavement to the memorial.
The memorial features a roughly-hewn cross in the Celtic style, which is adorned with a relief-carved inverted longsword. This cross is set on a roughly-hewn trapezoidal plinth, which rests on a three-stepped base.
The main inscription, in blackened lettering on the smoothed front of the plinth, reads: 1914 - 1919 / FOR GOD, KING & COUNTRY / IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING MEN OF THIS PARISH, followed by the names of 17 individuals listed in two columns. Below this, on the front face of the upper step of the base, is an additional inscription: 1939 1945, along with the names of five more individuals listed in two columns.
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