Compton Abdale War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 2019. War memorial.
Compton Abdale War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- quartered-clay-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
First World War memorial, built after 1919.
MATERIALS: Cotswold stone.
DESCRIPTION: Compton Abdale War Memorial is located on the embankment adjacent to the path leading to the Grade II-listed Church of St Oswald. Two Grade II and one Grade II-listed monuments are situated within the churchyard, and the memorial is also located within close proximity to several other Grade II-listed buildings and structures in the village.
The memorial, built from Cotswold stone, consists of a wheel-headed cross on a tapering shaft. A small Latin cross in a roundel is carved in low relief at the intersection of the cross-head. The cross shaft rises from a chamfered plinth, square on plan, on a three-stepped base.
The north face of the plinth bears the incised inscription: ERECTED TO THE / MEMORY OF THE MEN / OF THIS PARISH WHO / FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 / followed by the names of the six fallen and THEIR NAME WILL LIVE FOR EVERMORE. The east and west faces read THE FOLLOWING / MEN SERVED IN THE / GREAT WAR followed by the names of those who served and returned.
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