Chesham Bois War Memorial

First World War memorial, 1920, with secondary inscriptions added following the Second World War.

ARCHITECT: designed by local architect John Harold Kennard, with stone carving by Mr Arrowsmith of Stockwell, London, metal founding by Wilmer and Co of St Mary Axe, London, and construction by WT Robinson of Chesham.

MATERIALS: Portland stone.

DESCRIPTION: an oval plinth with recessed panels and with a moulded base and cornice, set upon a circular paved area. The plinth is surmounted by a triangular-plan pillar with chamfered, panelled corners and scroll mouldings to the base. On top is a cornice with a heavy scrolled pediment enriched with bead and spindle and foliage mouldings. On the face of the pillar, which is slightly concave, is inscribed ‘ERECTED / TO THE MEMORY / OF THOSE OF THIS / PARISH WHO FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918’, with the names of 31 men, ordered by rank. On the base is inscribed ‘TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE OF THIS PARISH / WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945’, with the dates inscribed again within a moulded laurel wreath in the central panel. The side panels hold the names of the 19 local people that lost their lives in the conflict.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 11 January 2017.