Woodchester War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 2015. War memorial.
Woodchester War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tilted-sentry-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A war memorial of 1920 date, restored in 2010.
MATERIALS: constructed of local Minchinhampton limestone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial is a freestanding wheel-cross on a tapering column that stands on a square base with three square steps below. The base is inscribed with the text: REMEMBER/1914 – 1919. Below, the names of the fallen (19) are listed in two columns. Further below the text: FELL. The step below is inscribed with the text: 1939 – 1945 and the names of the fallen from the Second World War (8). The left side of the lower step is chipped. All the text has been painted in black. To the rear and sides of the memorial is a high dry-stone wall which continues along the road on each side. A bank of land with established trees to the rear of the site rises above the structure and the road.
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 10 January 2017.
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