Timber Memorial Cross, Branston
World War I
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ContributeWooden cross with carved Christ on stone plinth with leaded inscription and names of the fallen. The names of those who returned from service are carved onto wooden tablets located to either side, on wall. The curving back wall is a deliberately-created semi-circular niche in the churchyard wall, with an eyebrow head at the centre, behind the calvary cross. The ground is paved, with a kerb denoting the original line of the churchyard wall.
Location
Memorial Cross, St Guthlac's Churchyard - Branston
Grid Reference: SK8088329549
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Inscription Reads
LORD, REMEMBER WHEN THOU COMEST
IN THY KINGDOM THOSE WHO GAVE LIFE
FOR US IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918
[NAMES]
RIP
SONS OF THIS PLACE, LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID,
THAT YOU WHO LIVE ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD,
THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES, THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP
A RICHER HARVEST, ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP.
Rolls of Honour to walls: IN THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE OF/THE MEN OF BRANSTON WHO WENT/ TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY IN/THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/AND RETURNED IN SAFETY/WE THANK THEE O GOD/ (NAMES)