Morland, Newby, Kings Meaburn and Sleagill Cross

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Reference WMO/173152

Address:

Morland Churchyard

Morland

England

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Status: On original site
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)
  • Boer War, Second (1899-1902)
About the memorial: Celtic style sandstone cross on a 4 step base. See Leith-Lyvennet News, February 2014, Page 2- The cross is to be restored by public subscription in 2014 at a cost of £1,014. As the lettering cannot be recut due to the design of the steps and the stone is in any event too worn to take new carving new slabs of sandstone on the 6 o’clock face with pre sand-blasted lettering are to be made an attached to each of the steps.
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THIS MONUMENT HAS BEEN ERECTED/BY THE INHABITANTS OF MORLAND/NEWBY, KINGS MEABURN & SLEAGILL/TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN/SACRED MEMORY OF THE FALLEN/BRAVE FROM THIS PARISH/TO THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-1918/[names]/3 o’clock face- TPR GEORGE WATT/S AFRICA 1900/ 12 o’clock face- THESE HAVE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE

Column 1 SERGT ROBERT BELLAS/PTE JOHN BRIGGS/PTE JOHN BROWN/PTE FREDCK W DENT/SERGT STEPHEN HAYHURST/CORP CORNELIUS HAYHURST/SEAMMAN JOHN JAMES/PTE WILLIAM JAMES Column 2 PTE LOWTHER L KITCHEN/MAJOR RONALD A MARKHAM/PTE THOMAS OSTLE/2ND LIEUT JOSEPH POWLEY/ CORP JOHN P REGAN/PTE MATTHEW SHAW/PTE JOHN THRELKELD/PTE TOM WILKINSON/ 3 o’clock face- TPR GEORGE WATT/S AFRICA 1900

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