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Reference WMO/76631

Address:

Salisbury Road

(By entrance to Shaftesbury School)

Shaftesbury

SP7 8ER

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: The memorial is outside Shaftesbury School. It is clear from the black and white photograph that this is not the original site. Signposts place the village of Cann slightly to the south of Shaftesbury itself (although the memorial is quite close to the former parish church of St Rumbold, Cann). There are, in effect, two memorials. The names from Cann parish are listed on the front and left-hand side of the base. A plaque memorial is attached to the right-hand side; this is actually a near-duplicate of the plaque in the church at Kington Magna (Ref: 97639). This is almost certainly the memorial that was originally in the Primitive Methodist chapel at Kington Magna (see Western Gazette, 15 October 1920, p 6, for an account of the dedication of the Kington Magna memorials). How the memorial got to Cann or Shaftesbury is a bit of a mystery. An article in the Blackmore Vale Magazine (10 January 2015) proposes the following: 'Rumour has it that a certain resident of Kington Magna found an old war memorial tablet in his garden and took it to Shaftesbury School in the late 1980s for their display when they were doing a production of ‘Oh What a Lovely War’. Why a duplicate tablet had been made is not known, although it was possibly meant for the chapel, and curiously it does differ slightly in its layout from the memorial in Kington Magna. When the show was over our man couldn’t be bothered to take the tablet home as he didn’t particularly want it in his garden. So one dark night he took it and left it outside Shaftesbury town museum.'
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TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ THOSE OF THE PARISH OF CANN WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918./ (Names)/ "GOD GRANT THEM ETERNAL REST." DEO SOLI GLORIA/ IN PROUD AND LOVING/ MEMORY OF THE MEN OF/ THIS VILLAGE WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY. (Names)

[18 names]

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