Memorial

Market Square Cross, Minchinhampton

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Current Location

Market Place, Butt Street, Minchinhampton, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL6 9JU, England

SO 875 010

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Type of Memorial: Cross
WMR Reference Number: 65898
Description: A Celtic cross set on a stepped octagonal pedestal and a wider octagonal base. The head of the cross has a delicate floral carving. Bronze plaques are affixed to alternate faces of the lower level of the pedestal, with a finely-carved inscription in serif capitals carried around all sides, and bearing the names. Metal plaques add in 2010.
Inscription: WW1: IN MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR & AS A THANKSGIVING TO GOD FOR THEIR COMRADES WHOSE LIVES WERE SPARED. THIS CROSS IN GRATITUDE WAS SET UP BY THEIR FELLOW TOWNSMEN AD 1919. WW2: They shall grow not old,/ as we that are left grow old:/ Age shall not weary them,/ nor the years condemn./ At the going down of the/ sun and in the morning/ We will remember them.

Cross

Made from: Stone - Limestone

Condition: Good

Historic England

Grade: II

List Entry: 1172582

Listed 24 March 1988 for its special architectural or historic interest.

Plaques

Made from: Bronze

Condition: Good