Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- High Peak
- Town
- Hayfield
- County
- Derbyshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War - civilians, Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- MESSRS BURGESS AND SONS (Builder)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 2 October 1926
Attended by: Brigadier General G D Goodman CB CMG DSO VD - Dedicated
Date: 2 October 1926
Attended by: REV G A T RICKABY - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 14278
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Current location
In a garden area next to St Matthew's Church
Church Street
Hayfield
High Peak
Derbyshire
SK22 2JE
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 03738 86779
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- THREE-STEPPED DERBYSHIRE GRITSTONE STEPS SURMOUNTED BY SQUARE GRANITE PLINTH AND ROSE COLOURED PETERHEAD GRANITE WHEEL CROSS. WHOLE STANDS ON A CONCRETE BASE. WREATH IN RELIEF ON THE BASE SIDES OF THE CROSS
- Inscription
- NORTH FACE: PATRIOTISM / TO THE GLORY OF GOD / IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF HAYFIELD / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING / AND COUNTRY / THEIR BRIGHT SPIRIT STILL TENANTS THE / HEARTS OF THOSE WHO LOVED THEM / THEY PASSED OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MEN / BY THE PATH OF DUTY / AND SELF SACRIFICE / LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER / SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES / ARE NOT FORGOTTEN WEST FACE: HONOUR / (NAMES) SOUTH FACE: SACRIFICE / (NAMES) EAST FACE: FREEDOM / (NAMES) TABLET: ALSO IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN / GREAT WAR 1939 - 1945 / (NAMES) / THE FOLLOWING CIVILIANS WERE KILLED BY / ENEMY ACTION / (NAMES) / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bamford, Joel
Barlthrop, Frank
Barnes, Robert S
Baxter, Arnold
Beever, William N
Bennett, James
Bennett, Raymond
Bowden, Douglas
Bowden, Leonard
Bradley, Fred
See details for all 71 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 57
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 57
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname,forename - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 6
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 6
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname,forename - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 9
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 9
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname,forename
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: height 21 FT
Materials: Granite - Peterhead - Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Derbyshire Gritstone
- Cross
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- History
- AS IN 1991: PLANNED: CONCRETE BASE ON THE SOUTH SIDE CRACKING
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- Other website www.hayfieldwardead.co.uk/
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