Stoke and Wexham War Memorial

The Stoke and Wexham War Memorial is a First World War memorial designed as a pavilion that houses a pump supplying a drinking fountain and horse trough. It was erected by Sir Bernard Oppenheimer, although the exact date and designer are not known.

Constructed from stone-coloured faience blocks by Doulton and Co of Lambeth, the memorial features a clay tile roof and a clay tile and stone floor, along with a granite memorial plaque and a cast-iron pump. The structure is a neo-classical octagonal pavilion supported by eight Greek Doric columns that hold up the entablature. The frieze is adorned with triglyphs, and there is a deep overhanging cornice. Four of the columns are free-standing, while the other four are engaged with low walls on the three western sides of the memorial. The westernmost wall is taller and includes a rectangular horse trough on the outside and an arched drinking fountain with a basin on the inside. The roof is topped with a stone ball finial.

Inside the pavilion, there is a (now incomplete) cast-iron flywheel and crank water pump, likely made by Joseph Evans of Wolverhampton, which stands on a clay tile and stone slab floor. A granite plaque on the wall next to the horse trough is inscribed: "IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF/ STOKE & WEXHAM/ WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 -1918./ ERECTED BY SIR BERNARD OPPENHEIMER BART." Additionally, there is a stone plaque above the trough that notes the restoration of the memorial by the parish council in 1995, marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.