Guilsborough and Coton War Memorial

The memorial stands at the entrance to the village cemetery, across the road from the church of St Ethelreda (Grade II*). It comprises a c6m tall limestone cross with foliate head carried on an octagonal shaft. This rises from a square plinth set on a four-stage octagonal stepped base.

The plinth carries inscriptions in gilt lettering incised into slate plaques:

(north) TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE/ OF THE MEN OF GUILSBOROUGH AND COTON/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WARS/ 1914-1919./ 1939-1945.

(east) (9 NAMES)

(south) HALLOWED IN CHRIST BE THE MEMORY/ OF ALL THE GALLANT MEN AND WOMEN/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR FOR/ THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD./ THEY SHALL YET STAND BEFORE/ THE THRONE, AN EXCEEDING GREAT ARMY,/ AND IN THAT LAST MUSTER SHALL/ BE FOUND THESE, OUR OWN BELOVED.

(west) (9 NAMES)

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 16 January 2017.