Appleton Roebuck War Memorial

This First World War memorial was erected in 1921, with later additions commemorating the Second World War. It stands within a hedged enclosure in the churchyard of the Grade II listed All Saints’ Church and faces the main street. A set of five steps leads up to the memorial, which is constructed from Portland stone and stands 2.5 metres high. The base measures 0.9 metres long and 0.8 metres wide. A wheel-cross, decorated with shallowly carved Celtic designs, sits atop a plain, tapering shaft that is itself set on a single step base of Portland stone. The main inscription, in plain leaded lettering, is on the western side of the plinth and remembers Joseph Barnes of the 18th Hussars, Henry Yates Cundall, Harry Lorriman of the K.O.Y.L.I., and “all their comrades who fell in the Great War 1914 – 1918”. Below this is the inscription “REST ETERNAL GRANT UNTO THEM O LORD”. Two further names are inscribed on the south side of the plinth, possibly added later, alongside the name of one serviceman who died in the Second World War, marked by the inscription 1939 – 1945. Each soldier's name is preceded by the regiment they served with.