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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Composite
- District
- Cherwell
- Town
- Adderbury
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: May 1921
Attended by: Unknown
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 24544
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Current location
On angle of wall between the Nave and south Transept,
St. Mary's Church
Mill Lane
Adderbury
Cherwell
Oxfordshire
OX17 3LP
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 47094 35377
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Figure of St. George slaying the dragon placed in a niche under an ornate canopy. It is flanked by name tablets for WW1. Below the figure is a dedicatory inscription tablet supported by two angels and an additional tablet for WW2 names.
- Inscription
- Tablet - left : (15 NAMES) / 1914 + 1919 Tablet - right : (15 NAMES) / 1914 + 1919 Scroll tablet - centre : IN HONOURED MEMORY OF / ALL THOSE WHO FOUGHT & / FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THIS / PARISH RECORDED ABOVE / Tablet - lower centre : (11 NAMES) / 1939 + 1945
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Aplin, P.
Badby, S
Bayley, T. H.
Baylis, J
Beasley, A
Bennett, W J
Blackwell, T A
Bonner, C. E.
Brennan, D. G.
Butler, W J
See details for all 41 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 30
Served and returned: 0
Died: 30
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename initials, surname, decorations
Order of information: Surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename initials, surname
Order of information: Surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Figure
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Figure
- 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
- Adderbury
- WMO ID: 244394
- Condition: Good [last updated on 20-09-2016]
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- Costs
Site: £248 15s 0d (£248.75)
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- P.C.C. and Adderbury British Legion
- Reference
- Carter Postcard Collection
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