Sparsholt - WW1 and WW2 wooden cross

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Reference WMO/75320

Address:

St Stephen's Church

Outside the wall of church

Sparsholt

Winchester

SO21 2NR

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Latin cross
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Sparsholt and Lainston war memorial is located on Woodman Lane in a key area of Sparsholt adjacent to the Church and opposite the Memorial Hall, village shop and primary school. The memorial is an oak cross on a brick base and plinth. The memorial commemorates those from World War I and World War II and the names of the fallen are carved onto stone coping panels on top of the plinth and a stone plaque on the face of the plinth. The memorial is not listed but is located within a conservation area. Two stepped octagonal brick base surmounted by octagonal brick plinth, concrete top and wooden Latin cross. Inscription carved on the top of the concrete top and on a tablet set onto the front face of the plinth. Names are repeated on the top and on the tablet.
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Seeing that we are compassed about by so great a cloud of witnesses let us run with patience the race that is set before us. In remembrance 1914 - 1918 Additional plaque - In Remembrance. 1914 - 1918 1939 1945

Grade II (England)

1427633

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