Batcombe War Memorial

The Batcombe War Memorial is a stone structure erected around 1920, located at the junction of Vining’s Hill and Gold Hill in Batcombe. It features a tapered octagonal shaft with blind tracery at both the bottom and top, the latter adorned with incised decorative carved bands, and is topped with an octagonal cross. The cross has three arms, each supported by four decorative stone corbels, and finished with bevelled octagonal coping stones. The shaft is set on a moulded octagonal base and pedestal, which includes a dado and plinth. Below this is an additional octagonal plinth, and the entire memorial is positioned on a substantial square platform made of roughly coursed, undressed stone.

On the west face of the dado, there is an inscription in black metal lettering that reads: "IN PROUD AND / GRATEFUL MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF / THE PARISH / WHO DIED IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914 – 18." The names of the eleven men from the parish who died in the First World War are inscribed on the flanking faces, with an additional inscription on the right side stating: "MAY THEY REST IN PEACE."

The memorial is situated at the center of a raised green, which is enclosed by rubble stone walls topped with cock and hen coping stones. It is accessible from the roadside via a flight of four steps made of roughly-coursed rubble stone.