Aston Clinton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 2015. War memorial.
Aston Clinton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- open-trefoil-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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’.
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