- Type of Memorial
- Cross
- WMR Reference Number
- 3358
- Description
- Foliate sandstone cross with an hexagonal shaft, set on an irregular hexagonal plinth. The top of the plinth is corniced, with a carved inscription running around it. The broad front face carries a carved, ribboned laurel wreath, above the carved Dedication. The panels each side are narrow, with wider panels following them, carrying the WW1 Names, with the WW2 Names being on the narrow rear panel. The names are incised. The plinth sits on two circular steps with a paved circle leading out to a small raised garden with steps leading out to the entrance. The garden is enclosed within a sandstone wall built by returned WW2 serviceman, and has a stone bench, with inscription, built into the back wall..
- Inscription
- Front of plinth: To the/ Honoured Memory/ of men from/ Chipping/ Seagram/ Little Rowland/ & Thornley,/ who fell/ in the Great War/ 1914 - 1918/ 1939 - 1945 (Names) / 1939-1945 (Names)
Carved around the corniced top to the plinth: Their name shall endureth from generation to generation
Plinth back left hand face: (Names)
Plinth back right hand face: (Names)
Plinth back centre face: 1939/ (Names)/ 1945
Plinth base: THEIR NAME SHALL ENDURETH FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
Tablet set into front of the wall: This wall was erected by/ the ex-servicemen of/ the 1939 - 1945 War.
Tablet on back of stone bench, rear wall: We will/ remember/ them