Hackenthorpe

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Reference WMO/148325

Address:

Christ Church

Sheffield Road

Hackenthorpe

S12 4LR

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 Stone (any)
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: White-painted stone Latin cross with a moulded foot standing on a high base. The cross is set on a square, chamfered plinth which is painted black. The front, north-west face of the cross is recessed with a moulded frame and relief-carved Gothic tracery detailing. A mandala in the centre of the cross head has the relief letters IHS intertwined and picked out in black. The foot of the shaft is supported on each side by a console bracket and stands on an elaborately moulded foot. The square base has chamfered corners with chamfer stops. The front, north face of the base has an incised inscription painted black which reads 1914 THE GREAT WAR 1919, with the first names, initials and surnames of seven men and the year they died below. Beneath is the inscription “THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE”. The left-hand, east side of the base has a black-painted inscription which reads 1939 WORLD WAR 1945 with the first names, initials and surnames of seven men and the year they died below.
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1914 the Great War 1919 [names]. They died that we might live. 1939 World War 1945 [names].

WWI:Reginald Tagg 1916, Clifford Renshaw 1916, Benjamin Crookes 1917, Harry B Oxley 1917, Edward Gradden 1918, Fred Ellis 1918, John Rose 1918.WWII: Walter H Smith 1941, Douglas N B Barker 1942, George Lilley 1943, Richard Bristow 1943, William H Shaw 1944, Arthur Thompson 1944, Gladstone Poyntor 1944.

Grade II (England)

1462469

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