Memorial

Hagworthingham

Hagworthingham war memorial

Source: Copyright Colin Murray

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Current Location

Holy Trinity Church, Church Lane, Hagworthingham, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, PE23 4LP, England

TF 34395 69247

Church of England

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Type of Memorial: Cross
WMR Reference Number: 42938
Description: Traceried cross atop a tapered shaft set upon an octagonal double plinth and a three stepped octagonal base. Slate tablets are fixed to all sides of the double plinth, the inscription is across faces 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the upper plinth, and names are on faces 1, 2, 7 and 8, all incised and picked out in white.
Inscription: Upper plinth faces (starts on face 3): REMEMBER IN MERCY THOSE WHO DIED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE IN OUR DEFENCE/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS/ St JOHN XV. 13 Upper plinth face 1: RIGHTEOUSNESS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN/ 1914-1918 Lower plinth face 1: (Names) Upper plinth face 2: THOSE WHO DIED FOR/ MAN THAN THIS Lower plinth face 2: (Names) Upper plinth face 3: REMEMBER IN MERCY/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO Upper plinth face 7: DEFENCE/ HIS FRIENDS/ St JOHN XV. 13 Lower plinth face 7: 1939 - 1945/ (Names) Upper plinth face 8: SAKE IN OUR/ HIS LIFE FOR Lower plinth face 8: (Names)

Maker(s): E Browning and Sons of Spilsby, Mason
Maintenance History: 2008: The inscriptions and names had become illegible and were replaced with sixteen new slate tablets around the two stepped base 2000: Inscription on the cross has eroded. There is a danger of friction damage due to a wire being placed around the top part to hold a telegraph cable to it. Part of the ground has subsided exposing part of the foundations.