MAIDSTONE MEN - (PRIVATE MEMORIAL ERECTED BY HERBERT MONCKTON)

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Reference WMO/91809

Address:

All Saints Churchyard

Bishop's Way

Maidstone

ME15 6YE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Other cross
Materials:
  • Stone Portland stone
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: The war memorial in the churchyard of the fourteenth century Grade I listed All Saints church in the county town of Maidstone in Kent, is a Portland stone cross on a pillar standing on plinth and an octagonal three-stepped base. The cross has tracery between the arms, and the arms end in elaborately carved terminals. Below the base of the cross, at the top of the pillar, are four small statues, standing on corbels. These figures are a knight, virgin and child, a king with a crown and sword and a warrior with spear and sword of flame. There is an inscription around the steps of the base. The memorial was paid for by a local family called Monckton, so is also known as the Monckton memorial.
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The inscription, in a Gothic script, runs in an incised band round the base and reads: THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED AND/ DEDICATED 1918/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ IN PERPETUAL AND GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF MAIDSTONE MEN/ WHO IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919/ GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THE EMPIRE/ 'TRUE LOVE BY LIFE TRUE LOVE BY DEATH IS TRIED LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND WE FOR ENGLAND DIED'.

Grade II (England)

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