St. Barnabas - WWII Cross

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Reference WMO/299294

Address:

St. Barnabas Church

Stroud Road

Gloucester

GL1 5LJ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Metal Lead
  • Stone Stone (any)
  • Timber Oak
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A rare WW2 memorial, set in the gardens at St. Barnabas Church, Gloucester. It comprises of a wooden cross set in a stone plinth, standing eight feet (ten feet including the stone plinth). it has a single, basic lead plaque attached to the west side of the plinth. the memorial forms part of a garden in the church yard. the memorial garden is circular with pathways leading north, south and west from the cross. it is also surrounded by four stone benches and a low level (eighteen twelve inch) drystone wall. on the eastern edge of the circle garden is a dedicated area for ashes internment and additional war memorial plaques (note; the churchyard does not have any burials and is an additional landscaped area only). small raised beds surround the immediate space around the memorial, forming a cross shaped pathway for access to the cross, for laying of wreaths, for example. Additional freestanding memorial flower pots are spread around the base of the plinth also. On the outer edge of the memorial circle are a number of small willow trees that serve to offer relative peace from the very busy roundabout (part of the a38 main through road in gloucester) which the memorial overlooks.
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1939 - 1945

frank sydney roberts royston hibbins norman smith ronald faulkner arthur byard edgar william kent harold morgan walter hobby peter greene douglas trigg albert barnes stanley wandless kenneth bretherton kenneth wright william james parnell hubert james vaughan

Grade II (England)

1420087

No - checked Gloucestershire Council 7/3/24

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St. Barnabas Church (Church of England)

https://www.stbg.uk/