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Latitude: 53.9319 / 53°55'54"N
Longitude: -0.7775 / 0°46'38"W
OS Eastings: 480363
OS Northings: 449107
OS Grid: SE803491
Mapcode National: GBR RQ0Z.G8
Mapcode Global: WHFCG.1F1M
Plus Code: 9C5XW6JF+P2
Entry Name: Pocklington Memorial Cross
Listing Date: 30 March 2015
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1425570
ID on this website: 101425570
Location: Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, YO42
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Civil Parish: Pocklington
Built-Up Area: Pocklington
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Riding of Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Pocklington and Kilmwick Percy
Church of England Diocese: York
Tagged with: Memorial
First World War memorial, 1921.
The memorial is c4m tall. It comprises a Yorkshire brown stone cross on a tapering octagonal Yorkshire white stone shaft. This stands on a square pedestal of the same Yorkshire white stone. The pedestal bears the inscription TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND/ IN MEMORY OF OUR COMRADES/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918 (52 NAMES). The pedestal stands on a two-stepped base in a paved area, flanked by two small lawns with flower beds.
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, 1 February 2017.
The war memorial commemorates the men of Pocklington lost in the First World War. Built by J Richardson of Pocklington, the cost was raised by their surviving comrades. It was unveiled on 20 November 1921 by the mothers of the first and last comrades to die, with local clergy in attendance. Railings on a curb around the memorial, which were erected after the unveiling and were still there in 1940, have gone. The flagpole which stands behind the memorial on a two-stage base is post-1940.
Pocklington Memorial Cross, which stands in Market Street, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reason:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the First World War.
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