Bathealton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 2017. War memorial.
Bathealton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- burning-kitchen-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A First World War memorial, erected circa 1920, altered after the Second World War.
MATERIALS: local stone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial takes the form of a short Celtic wheel cross, with relief-carved interlacing to the arms of the cross, with a moulded central boss. The shaft has a relief-carved cipher of the initials SH, below which is the carved inscription: TO THE / MEMORY OF / THOSE WHO / FELL IN THE / GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918 / 1939 – 1945. The shaft sits directly on a tapering square base, inscribed with the names of the casualties of the First World War (4) / OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / AND / followed by the name of the soldier who died in the Second World War. The base stands on a single step, also tapering, which is inscribed: GOD PROVED THEM AND FOUND THEM WORTHY FOR HIMSELF.
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 23 November 2017.
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