Southam and Cleeve Hill War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 2017. War memorial.

Southam and Cleeve Hill War Memorial

WRENN ID: turning-spire-fog
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Tewkesbury
Country: England
Date first listed: 1 December 2017
Type: War memorial
Source: Historic England listing

Description

A First World War memorial, designed by Healing and Overbury architects of Cheltenham, built in 1920 with alterations made after the Second World War.

MATERIALS: local limestone.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial consists of a plain wheel-headed cross on a tapering square shaft. The shaft rises from a square plinth on a three-stepped octagonal base.

INSCRIPTION: The dedication is inscribed on the plinth. The front face reads: IN GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN/ OF SOUTHAM AND CLEEVE HILL WHO/ FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919/ 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES). Two further faces are inscribed, the first with: IS IT/ NOTHING TO YOU/ ALL YE THAT/ PASS BY and the second with: GREATER LOVE/ HATH NO MAN/ THAN THIS, THAT/ A MAN LAY DOWN/ HIS LIFE FOR/ HIS FRIENDS.

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