Cavendish

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Reference WMO/117595

Address:

Village Green

Poole Street

Cavendish

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Portland stone
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Cyprus Emergency (1955-1959)
About the memorial: The Cavendish war memorial stands on the Green at the junction of Peacock's Road, Poole Street and High Street. A budded cross on a slender stone hexagonal pillar on an hexagonal plinth bearing 6 bronze plaques, all on a three stepped hexagonal base, all in Portland stone on a paved area surrounded by concrete posts and chain. It is around 20 feet hight in total. The fallen of the 1939-9145 war and of the Cyprus Emergency are inscribed in the stone of the riser of the middle step but are barely legible and two names are actually obscured by a stone planter being placed in front of that face. The whole memorial is now surrounded on the middle step level by various plastic planters, the ensuing vegetation obscuring some names The memorial was unveiled by Colonel, Sir Courtenay Warner Bart., and dedicated by Canon W.T.Farmilae on 19th September October 1921. Renovated and rededicated and unveiled by General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson DSO on 7th November 1948 when the six names from 1939-1945 were added. The memorial was designed by Leonard Crowfoot MSA of Newmarket and built by F.J.Lindley of Sudbury. The unveiling ceremony was reported in the Bury Free Press of 25th September 1920
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IN THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE / OF THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST / AND OF THE MEN OF CAVENDISH / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR BRETHREN / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918

Grade II (England)

1246133

Cavendish

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