Memorial

Westham Parish Cross

Westham memorial at Stone Cross 1

Source: Copyright Richard Callaghan

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St Luke's Church, Rattle Road / Hailsham Road junction, Stone Cross, Wealden, East Sussex, BN24 5EG, England

TQ 61544 04449

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Type of Memorial: Cross
WMR Reference Number: 17318
Description: Ionic wheel cross, with tapering shaft. It is set on a tapering plinth of rough-hewn stone, the front face of which bears the World War 1 inscription in lead lettering. The plinth is set on a two-stepped stone base, against which rests a rectangular stone tablet that bears the names of those who died in World War 2. The memorial stands in a paved area, surrounded by a low chain fence, in the grounds of St Luke's Church in Stone Cross. (The same casualties are named on the WW1 and WW2 stone tablets inside St Mary's Church in Westham - see WMR 17208 and 16941. Some of the WW1 casualties are also named on the "Hankham" altar and/or on the Westham Roll of Honour, both of which are now in St Luke's Church- see 58756 and 58757)
Inscription: (Wheel cross): THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ THESE DIED FOR US/ (NAMES) (Stone tablet): 1939-1945/ (NAMES)

Maker(s): A. Thornton of Horsham, Stone Carver
Maintenance History: July 1995: St Luke's Church at Stone Cross was constituted as a separate parish. / 1988: St Luke's Church reopened, and was granted a conventual district formed from parts of the parishes of Langney St Richard and Westham St Mary. / 1978: St Luke's Church closed. / 1958: paving stones were added around the memorial. / 1925: St Luke's Church opened (as a Chapelry of St Mary's Church) in the hamlet of Stone Cross, in whose grounds was the plot of land on which the Westham wheel-cross memorial stood. / 7/8/1921: the Westham Parish wheel-cross memorial was unveiled. At that time, the plot of land on which it stood was within the Westham parish of St Mary's Church.