Bourn

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Reference WMO/121623

Address:

Village Green

Short Street

Bourn

Cambridge

CB23 2SG

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Wheel cross
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Bourn war memorial is situated on a triangle of land formed by the forked junction of High Street with Short Street. It comprises a Celtic wheeled cross and shaft on a tapered plinth that sits on a square base. The front face of the cross and shaft is recessed forming a raised edge. The whole is constructed of Aberdeen granite. The memorial rests on a concrete platform in the centre of a York stone paved surface that is bounded by a stone collar and topped with a low leaf spear-point metal fence, over which is metal chain-link suspended from metal posts at the corners and centre-points. The four faces of the plinth are inscribed with the names of those killed in World Wars I and II.
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"Pass not this stone in sorrow/but with pride:/and may you live as nobly/ as they died" Erected/ to the glorious memory/ of the men of Bourn/who fell in the Great War/ 1914-1918 and 1939-1945

1914-1918 Ben Carter/Arthur Clark/Albert Smith MM/Harry Docwre/Charles Keep/Sidney Wilson MM/Charles Clark/James Coxall/Bertram Cauce 1939-1945 W Kimpton

Grade II (England)

1426174

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