Aston Clinton War Memorial

The Aston Clinton War Memorial is a war memorial cross built in 1921, designed and constructed by Newman and Harper of Aylesbury. It is made from pale grey Cornish granite and is situated within a semi-circular roadside plot, which is enclosed by box hedging at the back and features a row of eight granite piers connected by iron chains at the front.

The memorial consists of a Celtic cross atop a tapered plinth, which rests on a square base set on a grass hillock. The granite has a roughly hewn finish, except for a smoothly dressed panel on the front of the plinth. This panel is inscribed with applied lettering that reads: ‘TO / THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORIAL OF THE MEN OF / ASTON CLINTON / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918’, followed by the names of 30 men listed by surname. Below this, the dates ‘1939-1945’ are inscribed along with the names of 13 men, and the inscription ‘GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS’.