Bury St Edmunds

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Reference WMO/122665

Address:

Angel Hill

Bury St Edmunds

IP33 1UZ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Other cross
Materials:
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: The memorial is situated upon a raised pavement on the corner of Angel Hill, the front looking down the hill.A large sandstone wheel cross, upon a slightly tapered plinth, surmounting a three-tier octagonal base. The upper two tiers and base of the plinth have been fitted with metal brackets, joined by a wire, to hold poppy wreaths.
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IN PROUD AND THANKFUL MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF BURY ST EDMUNDS / WHO WENT TO THE GREAT WARS / AND LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM. TO / THE GLORIOUS DEAD / ( LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER / SEE TO IT/ THAT THEY BE NOT FORGOTTEN. THE ROLL OF HONOUR WHICH RESTS ON A LECTERN / IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JAMES / CONTAINS THE NAMES OF 427 MEN OF THIS TOWN / WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE. THIS MEMORIAL CROSS / WAS UNVEILED BY / GENERAL LORD HORNE GCB KCMG / ON THURSDAY OCTOBER 13th 1921.

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Grade II (England)

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