Latitude: 50.9548 / 50°57'17"N
Longitude: -2.0076 / 2°0'27"W
OS Eastings: 399563
OS Northings: 117264
OS Grid: ST995172
Mapcode National: GBR 2ZV.381
Mapcode Global: FRA 66PL.7P5
Plus Code: 9C2VXX3R+WX
Entry Name: Sixpenny Handley War Memorial
Listing Date: 6 July 2016
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1436127
ID on this website: 101436127
Location: Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, SP5
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge
Built-Up Area: Sixpenny Handley
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Sixpenny Handley with Gussage St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: War memorial Memorial
First World War memorial, 1920, with later additions for the Second World War.
The circa 4m high war memorial of Ham Hill limestone stands within a grassed enclosure on the roadside in front of the Church of St Mary (Grade II*-listed), behind a chain supported by low stone bollards. It comprises a plain Latin cross set on an octagonal plinth and three-stepped octagonal base.
The front face of the plinth is inscribed TO THE GLORY/ OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ 23 MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918. The commemorated First World War names are inscribed on the remaining faces below their year of death. The names of three men who fell during the Second World War are also inscribed on the plinth beneath the dates 1939 - 1945.
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, 7 December 2016.
Sixpenny Handley War memorial was unveiled in February 1920 by Captain George H Pitt-Rivers, commemorating 23 local servicemen who died during the First World War. The ceremony was conducted by Reverence EE Hasluck, with an address given by the Bishop of Salisbury. A War Memorial Committee had decided in mid-1919 to erect a cross; the cost of £240 had almost been raised at the time of the unveiling. The names of three men who died during the Second World War were later added.
Sixpenny Handley War Memorial, located on the B3081, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Design: a well-executed limestone cross;
* Group value: with the nearby Grade II*-listed Church of St Mary.
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