Memorial

Hartburn

The Memorial

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Current Location

Village Green, Hartburn, Castle Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 4EP, England

NZ 08904 86076

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Type of Memorial: Cross
WMR Reference Number: 33909
Description: Stone cross on tall, plain tapering shaft with deeply bevelled edges, on a 4 stepped base. The dedication for WW1 is on the front face, and for WW2 on the back face
Inscription: Front-PASS / FRIENDS / ALL IS WELL / 1914 / HARTBURN /1919 Back-1939 / HARTBURN / 1945

Maker(s): SIR EDWIN LUTYENS, Architect
Mr J Robinson of Clay House, Meldon, Makers
Sponsor Type: private
Sponsored By: Mr & Mrs Straker of Angerton Hall, whose garden Lutyens had designed in 1904

Unveiled

August 1921

Colonel E P A RIDDELL CMG, DSO-Commander of the Northumberland Infantry Brigade

Cross

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Historic England

Grade: II

List Entry: 1042078

http://newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7495
Illustrated Chronicle 2 August 1921 -unveiling report (on 31 July, compared to the following Sunday in the Morpeth Herald))