Sway War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 2018. War memorial.
Sway War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- eternal-span-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
First World War memorial cross, 1921, by WA Hoare of Boscombe.
MATERIALS: constructed from Portland stone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial is a carved Celtic cross with the hilt of a moulded long sword at the crux, and the blade running down the tapering square shaft. It is set on a square plinth on a stepped base. On the front, south-west face of the plinth, is a moulded wreath with ‘1914 / 1919’ incised in the centre. On the opposite side is the inscription ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF SWAY WHO FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR’, followed by Royds’s verse. The south-west and north-east sides have the 30 names and regiments of the dead.
Sloping tablets have been added to the base of the south-west and south-east sides; the former records the names of an additional six men lost in the First World War, and the latter is dedicated to the 14 fallen soldiers of the Second World War.
The memorial is surrounded by concrete paving and is enclosed by metal railings.
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