The Yeovil First World War Memorial

ST5515NE YEOVIL CP HIGH STREET (North side)

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Commemorative Monument. Circa 1920. Ham stone; in the form of a C14 cross, hexagonal on plan. Standing on a 4-stepped hexagonal base, with low granite bollards to each corner; between angle buttresses, pointed arched cusped panels to each face with inlaid bronze plaques bearing general inscription and the names of the War dead: the first stage crowned with a band of Quatrefoil decoration surmounted by crenellation. The second stage has more cusped arched panels under gablets between crocketted pinnacles, with additional freestanding pinnacles to each corner; the third stage smaller but similar, except that the corner pinnacles are attached, then codes a band course, and the termination, a crocketted spirelet under an open stonework cross. Approx 6 metres high overall. Apart from its general significance, the memorial is a very important element of the street scene of The Borough.

Listing NGR: ST5566915983

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, 20 July 2017.