Hawkshead War Memorial

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Reference WMO/174994

Address:

St Michael & All Angels Churchyard

Church Hill

Hawkshead

Ambleside

LA22 0PQ

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: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Hawkshead War Memorial commemorates twenty one local men who died in the First World War. It was unveiled by Colonel Cowper-Essex on 11 November 1920. Following the Second World War, the names of the three who lost their lives in that conflict were also added. In 2003 the memorial was conserved and new hard landscaping was placed around it. This sandstone memorial is located in the churchyard of the Church of St Michael and All Angels and takes the form of a Celtic-style wheel-head cross. The front face of the cross is decorated with carved Scandinavian interlace designs around a central boss in the cross-head. The cross surmounts a rectangular tapered shaft which also bears Scandinavian interlace designs incorporating Saint George, defeating the dragon: entangled in the dragon's coils which have turned into interlace, he nevertheless manages to spear its gaping mouth. Below this on the shaft is the inscription carved in relief in a Celtic-style script which reads IN MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ HAWKSHEAD/ WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES/ IN THE WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ (NAMES). On the rear face of the cross and shaft is similar carved interlace designs incorporating a cross, with an inscription carved in relief in Celtic-style script at the base of the shaft. It reads LET THOSE WHO/ COME AFTER/ SEE TO IT THAT/ THEIR NAMES BE/ NOT FORGOTTEN/ 1939 – 1945/ (NAMES). The sides also are embellished with carved interlace designs. The shaft is set upon a rectangular three-stepped base. The design is by William Gershom Collingwood, close associate of John Ruskin and reflects his scholarly and artistic expertise on Norse and Anglican archaeology and early Northumbrian Crosses. The concept reflects the civic commitment to the region’s Scandinavian past and was influenced by the early C10 Anglo-Scandinavian cross at Gosforth in Cumbria. The sculptor was Barbara Gnosspelius (nee Collingwood), the daughter of the designer and the cross is a rare example of a war memorial sculpted by a female sculptor.
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(Front face) IN MEMORY/OF THE MEN OF/HAWKSHEAD/WHO GAVE/THEIR LIVES/IN THE WAR/1914-1918/ [names] (Rear face) LET THOSE WHO/ COME AFTER/ SEE TO IT THAT/ THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN/ 1939-1945/ [names]

WW1-MERVYN KEATS SANDYS/LEONARD H. RAWLINSON/WM. TOM TURNER/ROBERT RAWLINSON/JOHN RIGG THOMAS T. KENDALL/THOMAS HENRY IRVING/ERNEST BROCKBANK/ROBERT WM. A. USHER WILLIAM COWARD/JAS. H. THISTLETHWAITE/FRANCIE KENDALL/WM. GEO. WARRINER/BENJAMIN MARTINDALE/WILLIAM BREMNER/THOMAS ARMER/FREDERICK WM. LONGMIRE/JOHN POSTLETHWAITE/ WM. EDWARD BRADLEY/ROBERT CAMPBELL/JAMES FREDK HODGSON WW2-JOHN R. CLIFTON/JOHN R. CROSSLEY/ERNEST H. HODGSON

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