Description

TATWORTH AND FORTON

1593/0/10004 TATWORTH
03-JUN-04 Tatworth War Memorial immediately NNW
of the Church of St John

GV II
First World War memorial. Erected 1919. Ham stone. In form of a Medieval preaching cross. Octagonal on plan. A stepped base with a pedestal with inscriptions on each side, on which stands a tall tapered octagonal shaft, supporting a cushion-like capital, surmounted by a Latin cross, its arms terminating in volutes. The pedestal has the names of twenty eight servicemen of the parish who died in the First World War and an added inscription with the names of six men who died in the Second World War.
A good example of a First World War memorial, situated in the parish churchyard.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 14 December 2016.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670318

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)