Catcott War Memorial

A village war memorial of c.1920.

MATERIALS and PLAN: the monument is of limestone and has an elaborate, crocketed head with statues, raised on an octagonal shaft. Beneath this is a square base and a plinth of two steps with a platform and border.

The gravelled platform is bordered by a kerb, with taller corner and centre stones, which surrounds the monument. The road front has an inscription on the base which reads 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN GRATEFUL AND LOVING MEMORY / OF THE FOLLOWING MEN OF THE VILLAGE / OF CATCOTT WHO LAID DOWN THEIR / LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1918'. To the reverse is inscribed 'THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE'. Names of the fallen are inscribed on the flanks. The steps of the plinth below this have a projecting chamfered moulding to their tops. The shaft dies back to an octagonal upper body and rises to a richly carved band above which is the elaborate head of the monument which has an angled drum with decorative horizontal bands. Two niches contain sculptures of servicemen. That facing west shows a soldier and to the east is a sailor. The niches have cusped heads with crocketed finials surrounding the drum and a carved foliate knop to the top. The bottom of the shaft is engraved '1939 * 1945' with the names of the fallen below.

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, 14 December 2016.