Churchdown War Memorial

First World War memorial, unveiled in 1921, with additional names added following later conflicts.

MATERIALS: constructed of ashlar with bronze plaques.

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

Bronze plaques bearing the names of the fallen are fixed to the faces of the plinth. The north and south faces of base of the plinth have two carved square-leaf bosses. On the other faces of the plinth base is an inscription which 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, with the names of the fallen from that conflict recorded on bronze plaques on the north and west faces. A square bronze plaque on the north-west face of the middle step records the name of a serviceman who lost his life in the Malayan Emergency.