Widdrington

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Reference WMO/224279

Address:

Holy Trinity Church

A1068

Widdrington

NE61 5ED

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 Stone (any)
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Rough hewn wheel cross set on a tapering shaft and tapering plinth. Tablets are inset to the sides of the plinth and the whole surmounts a base of stones.. Outside the Co-op store near Widdrington station there is the Government VC paving stone for Second Lieutenant James Johnson VC- which is not a memorial in it's own right (see that report for details of incorrect information about his parentage in the unveiling programme, and also a debate about whether the stone should be in Widdrington Station or in Widdrington Village).
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Foot of shaft:THEIR NAME/ LIVETH/ FOR/ EVERMORE. 12o'clock face of plinth: WIDDRINGTON MEMORIAL/ SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ THE MEN FROM THIS DISTRICT/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919.; 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock faces- [total of 33 names]

Grade II (England)

1442834

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