Batcombe War Memorial

War memorial, and enclosing walls and steps, erected in circa 1920.

MATERIALS: carved from stone.

DESCRIPTION: located at the junction of Vining’s Hill and Gold Hill in Batcombe, the war memorial comprises a tapered octagonal shaft with blind tracery to its bottom and top (that to the top is bordered by incised decorative carved bands), and is surmounted by an octagonal cross. Three of the cross arms have four decorative stone corbels, and are stopped by bevelled octagonal coping stones. The shaft stands on a moulded octagonal base and pedestal, comprising the dado and plinth. Below is a further octagonal plinth and the whole stands on a substantial square platform of roughly coursed, undressed stone. To the west face of the dado, in black metal lettering, is the inscription: IN PROUD AND / GRATEFUL MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF / THE PARISH / WHO DIED IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914 – 18

To the flanking faces are recorded the names of the eleven men of the parish who died in the First World War, and beneath those names recorded to the right-hand side, is the inscription: MAY THEY REST IN PEACE

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the memorial stands at the centre of a raised green, bounded by rubble stone walls with cock and hen coping stones, and approached from the roadside via a flight of four steps of roughly-coursed rubble stone.

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, 25 July 2017.