Mere Cross

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Reference WMO/160246

Address:

Junction of Castle Street, Salisbury Street and B3095

Mere, West Wiltshire

BA12 6DL

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Four-stepped octagonal base surmounted by square plinth, tapering shaft and cross with capped arms. Inscriptions on tablets on the sides of the plinth for WWI and WWII inscription on three sides of top step. Adjacent raised flower bed. Surrounded by iron linked chains and posts. Constructed of Tisbury greenstone which is a sandstone.
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PLINTH, 6 O'CLOCK FACE: 1914 - 1919/ THEIR NAME/ LIVETH FOR/ EVERMORE 3, 9 AND 12 O'CLOCK FACE: (NAMES) TOP STEP, 6 O'CLOCK FACE: 1939 - 1945 TOP STEP, 4.30 AND 7.30 FACE: (NAMES)

WWI - Bernard Arnold, Arthur Avery, James Avery, Sidney Avery, William A Bealing, Walter Brimble, Tom Brown, Charles Card, Maurice Coward, Arthur Doddington, Jim Doddington, Herbert Dismore, Percy Down, Arthur Farthing, Robert James Donald Few, Bertram Hugh Frost, Cecil Dennis Gray, Reginald Gray, Alfred Harding, Norman William Harding, Frank Herridge, Albert Victor Herrington, Joseph Percy Herrington, Ernest Frank Horrell, James George Horrell, Ethelbert Percy Ings, Harry Jukes, Harry Reader Lambert, Montague Willie Lampard, Arthur William Lapham, Leonard James Lawrence, Harold Mead, Bertie Henry Francis Meatyard, William Edward Mills, Colin Mitchell, Herbert James Newman, Arthur Norris, Arthur Henry Norris, Ernest Norris, Sidney Norris, Percival Pimm, Lewis James Sheppard, Reginald Joseph Sheppard, Frederick James Smith, Walter Harold Snook, William Albert Snook, Horace Ralph Welch. WWII - Rees Brice, Ronald Frank Gray, William Hansford, Arthur Robert Howse, Bernard Charles Lawrence, Frederick Albert Morgan, Sidney Thomas George Mills, Philip Franey Matthews, Robert William Pugsley, James George Penny, Thomas Patrick Walsh, Walter James Warren.

Grade II (England)

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