Memorial

Aylesbury

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Current Location

North end of Market Square., Market Square, Aylesbury, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, HP20 1TW, England

SP 81924 13763

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Type of Memorial: Cross
WMR Reference Number: 8077
Description: A cross of sacrifice with a sword on the front face rises from the centre of a low wall which bears a nowy-headed plaque with a Maltese cross. The wall also has inset bronze name panels. The area is surrounded by low chain link fence. Street lamps rise from each each end of wall. The lamp bases are ornamented with acanthus leaf and the shafts wreathed in laurels
Inscription: 1914 1918/ THEIR MEMORY/ LIVES/ FOR EVERMORE (Names on plaques on wall)

Maker(s): Webster & Cannon, Builder
S B Goslin & Son, Founder / Foundry
Fred Taylor ARIBA, Architect
Costs: £1930 6s.
Sponsor Type: public
Additional Cost/Sponsorship Information: Masonry £1510 6s; metalwork £420. The majority of the work was done by ex-servicemen.
Maintenance History: Sir Reginald Blomfield, who designed the IWGC Cross of Sacrifice, was critical of this memorial, both for pirating his design and for the execution: '... There is a deplorable example...in the market-place at Aylesbury. The local man has done his best, but he has simply murdered my Cross.'- 'Memoirs of An Architect' (London, 1932) pp.179-180. Sep. 1997: memorial cleaned.