WOODCHESTER WAYSIDE CROSS

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Reference WMO/103309

Address:

Church of Annunciation

St Mary's Hill

Woodchester

England

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Status: Unknown
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: n the Gloucestershire Cotswold village of Woodchester is a Grade II listed wooden wayside cross which stands at the intersection of four low brick walls, upon which are inscribed, in a red oxide paint on polished limestone plaques fixed to the walls, the names of the fallen. The memorial stands at the top of steps leading up through the churchyard to the Catholic Church of the Annunciation, Woodchester Priory, adjacent to the road between Stroud and Nailsworth. The path up to the memorial has wooden fencing on either side, and the fencing continues around the memorial.
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Memorial had major renovation in 2012 with cleaning, names re carved and new fencing and gates. New turfed surround. All locally funded. Plan to replace original Calvary on cross in 2015. Memorial unusual as built in 1916.

140 WW1 casualties but not all local men as Dominican Friar behind building invited anybody interested to submit names - at that time other memorials did not exist.

Grade II (England)

1359595

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