SHERBORNE ABBEY CROSS

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Reference WMO/97398

Address:

Sherborne Abbey

Half Moon Street

Sherborne

DT9 3LQ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Wheel cross
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: The memorial is in front of the Abbey in Half Moon Street, near a monument to a member of the Wingfield-Digby family who financed the restoration of the Abbey in the 19th century. The WW1 names are on plaques around the hexagonal plinth. Two plaques with WW2 names are on the wall behind, together with one carrying the names the victims of an Air Raid on Sherborne in September 1940. Below these three plaques are two more with names of members of the 294th Engineer Combat Division of the US Army (US Armed Forces).
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Grade II (England)

1471655

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