Steeple Bumpstead

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Reference WMO/196290

Address:

Church Street

Steeple Bumpstead

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Unknown
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Opposite the Moot Hall at the junction of Church Street with Chapel Street and Finchingfield Road. Unveiled on 12th December 1920 by Col. Joseph Griffiths A plain Latin cross on a square plinth on a two step base. An angled panel later added to the upper step to hold the names from WW2. Set in a roadside alcove of brick and flint and fronted by iron railings and gates. Overall height around 2.4 metres.
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On the Cross - LEST WE FORGET // 1914-1919. On the top block of the plinth IN GRATEFUL MEMORY // OF THE MEN OF // STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD WHO // FELL IN THE GREAT WAR. on the angled top step, above the names of the fallen, ALSO OF THE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES // IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945

on the plinth, incised and blackened, in 2 columns (left) ERNEST BACON // HERBERT BENTLEY // JACK BUNTON // WILFRED CLAYDEN // THOMAS CLAYDEN // CHARLES CLAYDEN // ARTHUR CLAYDEN // STEPHEN CLAYDEN // GEORGE CLAYDEN // EDWARD COX // FRANK CRESSWELL // FRED COOTE (right) WALTER FITCH // JOHN HAYES // JACK HUMPHREY // WILLIAM LOVETTT // HARRY MEARS // HARRY PLAYLE // HARRY PORTWAY // WILLIAM SMITH //WILLIAM SORRELL // WILLIAM SHERMAN // JOHN TURNER // GEORGE WESTLEY (centred at bottom ROBERT WILLIS on sloping step below, in 3 columns WW2 and Cyprus : BASIL BOGGIS // STANLEY CLAYDEN // WILLIAM CLAYDEN // EDWARD HARRISON // ALAN DUFF // VINCENT GOWERS (centre) MALCOM HUMPHREY // LESLIE LING // FREDERICK LING // HARRY MIZON // ALEC PINK (right) BRUCE ROBSON // LESLIE TARLING // REGINALD WESLEY // HAROLD WESLEY // KEITH HAYLOCK//(CYPRUS)

Grade II (England)

1452736

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