Upper Sheringham

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Reference WMO/212657

Address:

All Saints Church

The Green

Upper Sheringham

Sheringham

NR26 8AE

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: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Within the churchyard on the northern edge, overlooking The Street. A hooded Latin cross, atop a slender, tapering column, which sits upon a square plinth, the whole sitting upon a polygonal, two-tiered base. The whole is made from sandstone.The front of the plinth bears the general commemoration for WW1, with the left and right faces listing the names of 8 men (4 per face) who fell in WW1, the the rear face bearing the WW2 dates and the name of one fallen. The names consist of first name, other initial, and surname, cut in relief into the stonework. Around the base is an epitaph.
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TO THE / GLORY OF GOD / AND TO KEEP IN REMEMBRANCE / THE / MEN OF UPPER SHERINGHAM / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR / RIGHT AND JUSTICE IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918. (WW1 Names) (Rear) 1939 - 1945 / (Names) (Around the base) GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN / THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN / HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

(WW1) H. ROBERT DUNT / SYDNEY C. DUNT / FREDERICK DEW / EDWIN HARMER / JOHN H. HOWELL / ROBERT W. PEGG / ROBERT H. PURDY / GERALD T. WHALL/ (WW2) HAROLD D. CLARKE

Grade II (England)

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