Aston Clinton War Memorial

War memorial cross, 1921, designed and built by Newman and Harper of Aylesbury.

MATERIALS: built from pale grey Cornish granite.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial is positioned within a semi-circular roadside plot, bounded by box hedging to the rear and a row of eight granite piers linked with iron chains in front. It consists of a Celtic cross on a tapered plinth and a square base upon a grass hillock. The granite has a roughly hewn finish, except for a smoothly dressed panel on the front of the plinth, which is inscribed in applied lettering: ‘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, ordered by surname. Below that: ‘1939-1945’ followed by 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’.