
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Reigate And Banstead
- Town
- Reigate
- County
- Surrey
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 24th November 1917
Attended by: Reverend H G Hill, Vicar of St Thomas', Portman Square
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 71508
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Current location
Adjacent to the church of St Mark
St Mark's Church
Alma Road
Reigate
Reigate And Banstead
Surrey
RH2 0DA
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 25528 50871
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Large stone Calvary with pitched roof set on a tapering square column on a three-stepped octagonal base.
- Inscription
- GREATER / LOVE / HATH / NO / MAN / THAN / THIS TO THE / GLORY OF GOD / AND IN LOVING AND / GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THOSE WHO FOR OUR / COUNTRY OUR HOMES / AND FOR US / GAVE THEIR LIVES IN / THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 / MAY THE SOULS OF THE FAITHFUL / THROUGH THE MERCY OF GOD / REST IN PEACE / GRANT THEM O LORD / ETERNAL REST AND / LET LIGHT PERPETUAL / SHINE UPON THEM (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Allen, Albert E.
Ansell, Harwood E.
Bashford, William H.
Bates, Frances M.
Bennett, Percy
Berry, Alfred C.
Bowden, Horace G. C.
Brown, Frederick G.
Brown, Henry H.
Browne, Arthur R. H.
See details for all 100 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 99
Served and returned: 0
Died: 99
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, date of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Undefined
Measurements: height 518
Materials: Stone - Hopton Wood
- Undefined
- Listing information
- Reigate War Memorial
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Reigate St Mark's
- WMO ID: 133265
- Condition: Good [last updated on 23-08-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Conservation and repair work was carried out in 2011 by David Nash (Stonemason) of Beckenham.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Surrey Mirror - Friday 16 November 1917 WAR MEMORIAL OF ST. MARK'S, REIGATE
- Memorial listing: historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1430671
- Surrey Mirror - Tuesday 27 November 1917 TOUCHING CEREMONY AT REIGATE
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