Memorial

Old Bolingbroke

Old Bolingbroke Memorial Cross

Source: Copyright Mike Peck

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Current Location

Island at junction of Horncastle Hill, Hagnaby Road & Moat Lane, Horncastle Hill, Old Bolingbroke, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, PE23 4ER, England

TF 34845 65162

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Type of Memorial: Cross
WMR Reference Number: 20503
Description: Stone Cross with sword of sacrifice carved in relief on front face of a square column, this sits on a square base which blends into the top sloping sided plinth of a five-stepped octagonal stone base. The dedication is on Face 1 of the square cross base, WW1 names are on all faces of plinth 1, WW2 names are on face 1 of plinth 2 (octagonal plinths numbered from the top) Inscription goes anti-clockwise around the top of octagonal plinth 2.
Inscription: Face 1, square base: TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF OLD BOLINGBROKE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914-1918. Face 1 to 8 of octagonal base 1: (names)/ Face 1, octagonal base 2: GREATER LOVE/ 1939-1945/ (names) Face 2, octagonal base 2: FRIENDS Face 3, octagonal base 2: FOR HIS Face 4, octagonal base 2: HIS LIFE Face 5, octagonal base 2: LAY DOWN Face 6, octagonal base 2: THAT A MAN Face 7, octagonal base 2: THAN THIS Face 8, octagonal base 2: HATH NO MAN

Unveiled

26 June 1920

Revd Edward Andrew Pain, Colonel George Beaumont Walker VD, local parishioners and dignitaries