Churchdown War Memorial

The Churchdown War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled in 1921, with additional names added following later conflicts. It is constructed of ashlar and features bronze plaques.

The memorial consists of a stone cross on a collared shaft. The cross head has a carved rose and oak leaf at its center, while the base of the cross shaft displays a carved wreath on each face. The shaft rises from a plinth that sits on a three-stepped octagonal base.

Bronze plaques bearing the names of the fallen are affixed to the faces of the plinth. The north and south faces of the base of the plinth have two carved square-leaf bosses. The other faces of the plinth base feature an inscription that reads, in a clockwise direction from the north-east: "HAVE IN HONOUR/ ALL THOSE SONS/ OF CHURCHDOWN/ WHO WENT FORTH/ TO SERVE IN THE/ YEARS 1914-1918/ GREATER LOVE/ HATH NO MAN/ THAN THIS/ THAT HE LAY/ DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS."

A bronze plaque on the north-west face of the top step reads "1939-1945," and the names of the fallen from that conflict are recorded on bronze plaques on the north and west faces. Additionally, a square bronze plaque on the north-west face of the middle step commemorates a serviceman who lost his life in the Malayan Emergency.