Wayside Cross War Memorial east of the Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation

A First World War memorial in the form of a wayside cross, dedicated in 1917.

MATERIALS: limestone for the plinth, with a timber cross.

PLAN: the plinth is aligned as a cross with equal length arms.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands on a terrace on steeply sloping land below the Church of the Annunciation, the last remaining element of the former Priory at Woodchester. It takes the form of a timber wayside cross, set at the centre of a stone plinth aligned as a cross. The latter is built of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar coping, with the names of the fallen inscribed on ashlar panels to each face of the walls. A flight of steps leads down to a path, the later C20 wooden gate onto Bath Road having ashlar piers extending to stone-coped rubble dwarf walls and similar outer piers.