Drayton Memorial Lychgate

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Reference WMO/286568

Address:

St Peter's Church

Church Lane

Drayton, near Abingdon

OX14 4JS

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Lychgate
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
  • Stone Stone (any)
  • Timber Oak
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Korean War (1950-1953)
About the memorial: Two stone side walls support an elegant, wooden framed Lych Gate with a gabled, tiled roof. Two landscape orientated, brass plaques incorporating engraved inscriptions and names, are set, one per side, into each of the gable ends, representing WW1 on one plaque and WW2 together with the Korean War on the second plaque. Lych gate is surmounted by a large Cross.
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6 o'clock : THIS GATE WAS ERECTED BY THE / PARISHIONERS OF DRAYTON TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 / (30 NAMES in three columns) 12 o'clock : THIS GATE WAS RENOVATED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION / IN 1990 AND THE NAMES ADDED OF THOSE WHO FELL / IN THE 1939 TO 1945 WAR AND THE KOREAN WAR 1951 / (10 NAMES in two columns)

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