Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Vale Of White Horse
- Town
- Wootton
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 18 November 1919
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 31911
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Current location
St. Peter's Churchyard
Wootton Village
Wootton
Vale Of White Horse
Oxfordshire
OX1 5HP
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 47645 01387
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Brick-built foundation supporting a two-stepped square base surmounted by a square sectioned plinth, of which, the upper third portion, transposes into a chamfer-edged octagonal sectioned face. Rising from the plinth is a square-footed octagonal sectioned tapering shaft with integral cross. Small raised shield of St. George midway up shaft on front and rear sides. Incised inscription and names on plinth side faces.
- Inscription
- 6 o'clock face : TO THE MEMORY / OF / WOOTTON'S FRIENDS / WHO FELL IN / THE GREAT WAR // 3 o'clock face : (4 NAMES) // 9 o'clock face : (4 NAMES) // 12 o'clock face : "THESE ARE THEY WHO / CAME OUT OF THE GREAT / TRIBULATION." / THEIR BODIES ARE BURIED / IN PEACE, BUT THEIR NAME / LIVETH FOR EVERMORE. // 12 o'clock base face: A { 1914 / 1918 } D
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Clifton, Frederick
Dyer, Arthur
Finch, Harry
Griffin, Charles
Minns, Henry
Shepherd, Arthur
West, Ernest
Winterbourne, George
See details for all 8 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 8
Served and returned: 0
Died: 8
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname
Order of information: Listed alphabetically by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brick - Cross
Measurements: depth 3 ft, height 18 ft, width 3 ft
Materials: Stone
- Base
- 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
- Wootton, (near Abingdon)
- WMO ID: 233434
- Condition: Poor [last updated on 04-09-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Wootton P. C.
- Reference
- Oxford Times, 21 November 1919
- www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/war/wootton/index_list.html
- Oxford Journal Illustrated, 3 December 1919
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