Memorial

Beetham Cross

Cross

Source: Copyright Stuart Nicholson

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Current Location

Northerly junction of A6 and Mill Lane (entrance to village), Mill Lane, Beetham, South Lakeland, Cumbria, LA7 7AS, England

SD 49680 79605

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Type of Memorial: Cross
WMR Reference Number: 4217
Description: Celtic cross on a tall tapered shaft, with St Mary carved holding a lily within the wheeled crossing. The shaft face carries a carving of a grape vine, with rope work carved on the sides. The shaft is mounted on a stepped battered square plinth stood on two cantonal steps within a walled and paved semicircle, at the back of which is a screen wall carrying the Dedications carved on the wings each side of a raised centre section which carries the cast bronze plaques bearing the names. The WW2 names being on a small plaque below the much larger WW1 plaque. In the raised section above the plaques is carved a laurel wreath at the centre of a scroll carved with the years of the Great War. In front of the top step below the cross a small tablet was added in 2012 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, "And to honour the fallen".
Inscription: Inscription WW1, left: TO THE UNFAILING MEMORY OF THE MEN/ WHOSE NAMES ARE HEREON INSCRIBED Inscription WW1, right: AND AS A THANK OFFERING FOR THE/ SAFE RETURN OF THEIR COMRADES Above the WW1 plaque: 1914 1919/ IN MEMORIAM/ (Names)/ “Make them to be numbered with Thy Saints in Glory everlasting." Plaque, WW2: 1939-1945

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 16
Died: 16
Information shown: Rank, forename, initial, surname, unit, date of death, country of death
Order of names: By date of death

War: Second World War (1939-1945)
Number Commemorated: 5
Died: 5
Information shown: Rank, forename, initial, surname, place of death, date of death
Order of names: By date of death