Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Composite
- District
- Macclesfield
- Town
- Lower Peover, Knutsford
- County
- Cheshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 24 Jan 1922
Attended by: Bishop of Chester - Unveiled
Date: 24th January 1922
Attended by: Lady Leicester-Warren - Show More (1)
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2140
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Current location
Memorial is on the outside wall of the church
to the right of the main entrance.
St Oswald's Church
The Cobbles
Lower Peover
Knutsford
Macclesfield
Cheshire
WA16 6PZ
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 74274 74167
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- A stone Calvary mounted onto an outer church wall with bronze plaques depicting military scenes below. The whole is covered by a stone carved roof.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN HONOURED MEMROY OF/ THE MEN FROM THIS PARISH OF/ LOWER PEOVER WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED BY/ THE PARISHIONERS. 1921.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Barber, Thomas E
Bell, John T
Bell, Philip O
Beswick, Albert
Buckley, Joseph
Burgess, Charles
Cork, Christopher
Cork, Thomas
Dutton, William H
Eyres, John
See details for all 20 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 19
Served and returned: 0
Died: 19
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename, date of death.
Order of information: Date of death. - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename, date of death.
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Plaque
- 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
- FLEET CROSS AND WALL
- WMO ID: 102828
- Condition: Good [last updated on 11-09-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- cleaned 1991
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Church authorities
- Reference
- for images of names etc, see www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/170568
- For Your Tomorrow by Derek Boorman. (Page 117)
- Beside The Bright Stream by The Rev. J. C. Sladden, M.A., B.D (Oxon) The Background and History of St. Oswald's Church, Lower Peover (Peover Inferior Chesire)
- At the Going down Of The Sun: British First World War Memorials by Boorman, Derek P 117 Source: Library NIWM Published:Sessions 1988 York
- Christian Iconography and First World War Memorials/IWM Review No. 6 by Moriarty, C 72,73 source: Home NIWM Published: IWM London 1991
- Department WM1105
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