The Yeovil First World War Memorial

The Yeovil First World War Memorial is a commemorative monument built around 1920. It is made of ham stone and designed in the style of a 14th-century cross, with a hexagonal shape. The memorial stands on a four-stepped hexagonal base, featuring low granite bollards at each corner. Between the angle buttresses, there are pointed arched cusped panels on each face, which include inlaid bronze plaques that display a general inscription and the names of those who died in the war. The first stage of the monument is topped with a band of quatrefoil decoration and is surmounted by crenellation. The second stage has more cusped arched panels set under gablets, with crocketted pinnacles at the corners and additional freestanding pinnacles. The third stage is smaller but similar, with attached corner pinnacles, a band course, and a termination that features a crocketted spirelet topped with an open stonework cross. The memorial stands approximately 6 metres high overall. In addition to its significance as a war memorial, it is an important feature of the street scene in The Borough.