Memorial
Calow
Current Location
Eastwood Park, 194 Top Road, Calow, North East Derbyshire, Derbyshire, S44 5TD, England
OS Grid Reference
SK 41431 70995
Names listed on this memorial
Contribute to the War Memorials Register
Send us details and photographs of your local war memorials, to help enhance the information about the people, places and events they commemorate.
This record shows everything IWM currently knows about this memorial. We are continually updating our records.
© WMR-663
To share information or photographs, contact us.
- Type of Memorial
- Cross
- WMR Reference Number
- 663
- Description
- A sandstone monument comprising a wheel cross on a pedestal, plinth and base, with two bronze plaques. The cross has a design on the 6 and 12 o'clock faces comprising a central boss and interlaced strapwork in relief extending over the upper three limbs and a similar distance down the shaft. The cross surmounts a battered pedestal with moulded and bevelled top, a plinth with bevelled top and a base. The pedestal has a trapezoidal WW1 plaque recessed into the 6 o'clock face bearing an inscription and names in raised upright capital roman lettering. The foot of the shaft bears an oblong WW2 plaque on its 6 o'clock face with an incised inscription in upright sentence case block lettering coloured white.
- Inscription
- Lower plaque: IN MEMORY OF THOSE FALLEN FROM THIS PARISH/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918./ (Names)/ "GRANT THEM O LORD ETERNAL REST" Upper plaque: IN MEMORY/ Of those who fell in The World War/ 1939-1945/ (Names)
- War
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Number Commemorated
- 25
- Died
- 25
- Information shown
- surname,rank,regiment
- War
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Number Commemorated
- 10
- Died
- 10
- Information shown
- surname,regiment,forename
- Maintenance History
- 17 January 2014: There was a small crack on the 12 o'clock face of the base and on the 3 o'clock face of the pedestal. 2008: Repair and conservation work implemented, supported by a grant from the War Memorials Trust, reference WM2166. 1989-1992: The original plaques were stolen and subsequently replaced. The inscriptions may not have been exact copies of the originals.
Components
- Cross
Height: 2240mm
Width: 800mm
Depth: 255mm
Made from: Stone - Sandstone
Condition: Good
- Pedestal
Height: 780mm
Width: 910mm
Depth: 820mm
Made from: Stone - Sandstone
Condition: Good
- Plinth
Height: 200mm
Width: 990mm
Depth: 900mm
Made from: Stone - Sandstone
Condition: Good
- Base
Height: 260mm
Width: 1630mm
Depth: 1540mm
Made from: Stone - Sandstone
Condition: Good
- Plaque
Height: 600mm
Width: 840mm
Depth: 2mm
Made from: Stone - Sandstone, Bronze
Condition: Good
- Panoramio The page has a photograph. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/6615641
- Military Images The page has a photograph. http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/world-war-1-2c-2-war-memorials-and-commemorative-memorials/p55916-calow-2c-cheshire.html
- Other website Chesterfield and District Family History Society page has a photograph. http://www.cadfhs.org.uk/ccm/CalowWM.JPG
- War Memorials Trust WM2166 http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=463
