St Peter's Church War Memorial, Cheltenham

A First World War memorial, erected in 1920.

MATERIALS: Cotswold limestone, bronze.

DESCRIPTION: St Peter’s War Memorial stands outside to the north-east of the Church of St Peter (SW Daukes, 1847-1848, Grade II*-listed), adjacent to Tewkesbury Road on the north-west side of Cheltenham town centre.

The memorial takes the form of an octagonal shaft with gablets and small pedestals at its base on intermediate elevations, rising to a plain cross. It stands on a tall octagonal base with a sunken panel on each side, standing on a two-step plinth with a gravel surround. A plinth supports the base on a chamfered moulding, and the base for the shaft and cross has ogee and ovolo mouldings. A bronze wreath is set above a narrow cornice below the cross head on the east side. On the east side, at the base of the shaft is the inscription LEST WE / FORGET / 1914-1919 and at the bottom of the base runs the inscription GREATER LOVE / HATH NO MAN / THAN THIS. The names of the 134 men from the Parish who did not return are carved in the sunken panels on each face of the base.