Evercreech War Memorial

A First World War memorial, erected in 1920; altered after the Second World War.

MATERIALS: Portland stone, with marble name plaques, and bronze wreaths.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands in the cemetery connected to the parish church of St Peter (Grade I), located beyond the church itself on the north side of the road leading east from the village centre, and laid out by 1903.

The memorial is a simple Neoclassical column, with acanthus and lotus leaves to the capital and a ball finial on a plinth above, carved from Portland stone. The cross stands on a stepped and moulded square plinth on a two-stepped platform. Each face of the plinth has a white marble rectangular tablet, above each of which is a small bronze wreath. The principal face (south west) of the plinth is inscribed: IN MEMORY OF/ THE HEROIC MEN/ OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918; each other face contains a tablet inscribed with the names of the fallen. Below the face is a further smaller tablet inscribed AND OF THOSE IN/ THE WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945, followed by the six names of the men who fell in that war.