Huish Episcopi War Memorial

The Huish Episcopi War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1924, with an additional inscription added after the Second World War. It is made of coursed local lias stone, featuring rusticated ashlar dressings.

The memorial consists of a semi-circular fronted platform enclosed by a semi-circular wall. Steps lead up to the platform, which has a back wall with piers at either end and in the center. The wall includes a stepped stone plinth inscribed with the words: "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS." Each pier has rusticated quoins, and the central pier has a stepped top that culminates in a shouldered plaque displaying the dates ‘1914’ and ‘1918’ in bronze lettering, along with a carved bronze wreath in a recessed circular panel. Below this is a bronze plaque inscribed: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN/ HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THE PARISH/ OF HUISH EPISCOPI/ WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR./ (NAMES)." A second plaque lists the names of the fallen from 1939-45.

On either side of the central pier are cross-shaped openings in the wall. The flanking piers are capped with segmental arches made of moulded stone copings and kneelers. The left-hand pier features a stone panel with a bronze relief carving of the badge of the Somerset Light Infantry, beneath which is a stone sill decorated with guttae and a bronze plaque inscribed: "THEY REST FROM/ THEIR LABOURS." The right-hand pier mirrors this style, displaying the Royal coat of arms, with a plaque inscribed: "THEIR NAMES LIVETH/ FOR EVERMORE."

In front of the memorial, there are low side walls made of stone rubble, featuring regularly spaced squat stone piers linked by chain fencing. Additionally, two more stone piers with chain fencing are located at the approach to the memorial.