Wellesbourne.

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Reference WMO/149288

Address:

St. Peter's Churchyard,

Church Street,

Wellesbourne,

Warwick

CV35 9LS

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Wheel cross
Materials:
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Small stone wheel cross on small gabled plinth, straight shaft, main square plinth and two stepped base. The inscription and names are incised into the sides of the main square plinth at the bottom of the shaft. The memorial is Grade II listed. Originally erected in 1920 on the Village Green near the Talbot Hotel. At some stage the post and rail fencing around the memorial was removed and there were complaints that drinkers from the nearby Public House were treating it disrespectfully. There were also problems with the increasing motor traffic around the site. There was an accident reported involving someone trying to access the memorial. As a result it was decided to move the memorial. Shortly before the Remembrance Day service on Sunday 10th November 1946 the Memorial was removed to its present position on an area of crazy paving to the rear of the church tower, within the Churchyard of St. Peter’s. Prior to that service, the names of the nine men from Wellesbourne who died during World War II had been added to the memorial and were unveiled by Lieut-Colonel Brackenbury who also read the lesson and took the salute. The original site is now a traffic island in a one-way system. In May 2018 the memorial was carefully cleaned with some cracked stonework repointed and sealed, with funding from the War Memorials Trust and Wellesbourne and Walton Parish Council. 2019 name added - Trooper Ernest Welsh.
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6 o'clock face, capstone : IN MEMORY OF / THOSE WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND / WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945 9, 12 & 3 o'clock faces, capstone : (NAMES) 6 o'clock face, plinth : ERECTED BY THE / PARISHIONERS OF / WELLESBOURNE / IN GRATEFUL MEMORY / OF THOSE WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES IN / THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 / LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND / WE FOR ENGLAND DIED 9, 12 & 3 o'clock faces, plinth : (NAMES)

First World War Samuel Alderwood Frank J Atkins Charles Begley Charles A Bamford Percy A Bettridge Heber Climer Cyril E Clark Charles E Eden Charles E B-Forster Frank W Fincher Cyril T K Freeman Herbert P Hancox Levi Horsley John Hone William Hopkins Frederick W Lowe Herbert Loomes Percy C Lewis John Mence Thomas Maull Edmund F Parke William J Salmon Edward J Soden Walter Stock Frederick Walton Edgar H Frost Second World War Horace Brooks John T Carter Norman A England James Overbury David Overbury Ormonde Lousada Sidney Wilkins Jesse G J Morris Edward C Andrews

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