Axminster

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Reference WMO/98964

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St Mary the Virgin Church

Minster Green

West Street

Axminster

EX13 5AP

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: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Stone cross surmounts carved, square-set stone column with many niches. Column surmounts stone plinth which bears carved names and inscription. Memorial stands on wide square stone base.The memorial is Grade II listed. The names for WWII are inscribed around the base of the memorial. There is also a stone plaque for the WWII dead positioned above the main base - thus the WWII names appear twice.
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In grateful memory of the men of Axminster who died for their country in the Great War 1914 - 1918. In memory of those who gave their lives during the World War 1939 - 1945

Bertram P Bowles, Henry A Bruce, John S Channing, Charles F Chant, Francis F Chick, William C Chick, William A Claybyn, Edward C Claybyn, Thomas P Claybyn, Alfred A Coote, Frederick W Coote, William Dimon, Samuel B Enticott, Arthur Enticott, Charles Enticott, Gerald C Elson, Joseph Farmer, Alfred W Fish, John Froom, Raymond J Gimblett, Percy H Gribble, William Haysom, Archibald J Harris, John Harris, Ben Hoskins, Reginald Hoskins, Leonard W Lethaby, Thomas Loud, Archibald N Luff, Francis C Lumbard, Albert C Maidment, Frederick D Maidment, William C Mence, Ernest J Moulding, Ralph Pace, Albert H Parker, Thomas F Pavey, Ernest W Peach, Wm. H Percy-Hardman, Frederick C Perham, John Perham, Frank Perryman, James Pomeroy, Ralph Pomeroy, Thomas L Phippen, John H Richards, Colin T Rough, William J Russell, Frederick J Stentiford, William R Silk, Albert J Sloman, Edwin A W Snell, Tom S Snell, William J Spiller, John Spiller, Charles F Sprague, Leslie W Sprague, Reginald C Sprague, Harry Strawbridge, Charles E Sweetland, Sidney J Tucker, Frederick C White, Frederick C Willey, William H Woodland, Philip Young, Charles Young. Jeffries R C Bartlett, Cyrill H Carter, Wilfred C Coleman, Brian P Diment, Nelson H Ellis, Sidney R Foster, John J Fry, Frederick W Goddard, Cecil C Percy-Hardman, Percy Lambert, Gilbert J Long, James R McNeil, Frederick W Moulding, William W Nicholls, Vincent G Pascoe, Kenneth H Rosewell, Harold G Spurway, Robert Strawbridge, Charles F J Willey.

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Grade II (England)

https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1098616

1098616

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