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Latitude: 51.9924 / 51°59'32"N
Longitude: -2.1576 / 2°9'27"W
OS Eastings: 389276
OS Northings: 232673
OS Grid: SO892326
Mapcode National: GBR 1JR.1B4
Mapcode Global: VH93T.K57Y
Plus Code: 9C3VXRRR+XX
Entry Name: War Memorial
Listing Date: 27 July 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1201299
English Heritage Legacy ID: 376922
Also known as: The Cross
ID on this website: 101201299
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20
County: Gloucestershire
District: Tewkesbury
Civil Parish: Tewkesbury
Built-Up Area: Tewkesbury
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire
Church of England Parish: Tewkesbury St Mary the Virgin (Tewkesbury Abbey)
Church of England Diocese: Gloucester
Tagged with: War memorial
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Amendment on 26 June 2023 to update the address, description and reformat the text to current standards.
SO8932
859-1/6/341
TEWKESBURY
CHURCH STREET
THE CROSS
War Memorial
(Formerlylisted as HE CROSS War Memorial)
27/07/73
GV
II
War memorial. c1920. Limestone. A tapered octagonal shaft with moulded capital and a cross, on an octagonal plinth cut through by a square base with diagonal buttresses at centres of the sides, carrying four pinnacles. All set on a broad three-step hexagonal base, the lowest step with nosing, on a final hexagonal platform which has been rounded, and protected by six stone bollards. The cross carries a central shield of arms, and the base has a series of six bronze plates with the names of the fallen inscribed, dated 1914-1919 (sic). A further plate has been added covering the years 1939-1945.
The plate reads ‘ALSO IN HONOUR OF THOSE THO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNRY DURING THE 1939-45 WAR’ and ‘ALSO IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY IN OTHER CONFLICTS: R. D. SODEN N.IRELAND 1972.’
The memorial is at the meeting of the town's three main streets, previously occupied by a medieval cross, demolished in 1650, and later by a market hall: Dyde (1798) notes that on the spot "..... there was until recently a Tolsey or Town Hall .... very old and of mean appearance", which was said to be in the way of traffic. The new Town Hall (qv) in High Street replaced this former building in 1788.
(Dyde W: History and Antiquities of Tewkesbury: Tewkesbury: 1790-).
Listing NGR: SO8927632673
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, 10 January 2017 and 4 January 2022.
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