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    Memorial

    Riccall

    Riccall - Front and right hand side view

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    Current Location

    St Marys Church, Silver St, Riccall, Selby, North Yorkshire, YO19 6PB, England

    OS Grid Reference

    SE 62000 37864

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    Type of Memorial
    Pillar / Column
    WMR Reference Number
    31026
    Description
    In Portland stone, a tall, tapering, fluted pillar with a decorative capital and moulded band below. At the base of the pillar, to all four faces, is a relief carved wreath, while directly above is a pair of carved decorative bands. There is also carved decoration within the fluting. The pillar has a moulded foot and rises from a narrow square pedestal. This surmounts a tapering, four-sided plinth with moulded foot atop a narrow, single-step chamfered base. An inscription wraps around the pedestal in relief lettering, reading in an anticlockwise direction and starting on the north-east face.
    Inscription
    (Inscription from 2014) Front Face - TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN UNDYING MEMORY/ OF THE MEN FROM RICCALL/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"/ TO MARK THE CENTENARY/ OF THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ NEVER FORGOTTEN Sides ...WW1 (Names) - Right hand side Betts to ALFd Stead, Left hand side ALg Stead to White Rear ...1939 - 1945/...(Names) Pedestal: FOR GOD/ KING/ AND/ COUNTRY.
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    20
    Died
    20
    Information shown
    surname
    Order of names
    surname
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Number Commemorated
    5
    Died
    5
    Information shown
    surname,forename
    Order of names
    surname
    Maker(s)
    • George W Milburn and Son, York, Makers

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    31 July 1921

    Lt-Gen Sir Ivor Maxse

    Dedicated

    31 July 1921

    Reverend C Elam Greaves and Reverend J A Sheen

    Components

    Pillar

    Height: c2400mm


    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good