Great Orton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Great Orton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-rampart-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
First World War memorial, 1920.
MATERIALS: granite; sandstone; bronze.
DESCRIPTION: Great Orton War Memorial is located in the churchyard of St Giles Church, Cross House Gardens, Great Orton, Cumbria. It is prominently situated by the churchyard entrance. It comprises a granite boulder (roughly teardrop shaped) with a bronze plaque attached to its smoothed front face, with a bronze cross affixed to its tip. It is set upon a two-tiered square sandstone base of dressed stone blocks. On the first of these steps, four shell cases painted black form the corner posts for the chains surrounding the monument.
The plaque carries the inscription and names and the crest of the Border regiment. The inscription reads: 4th AUG 1914 11th NOV 1918/ (NAMES)/ “QUAE POTUÉRE”
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