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Latitude: 51.9019 / 51°54'6"N
Longitude: -1.7607 / 1°45'38"W
OS Eastings: 416558
OS Northings: 222618
OS Grid: SP165226
Mapcode National: GBR 4Q6.RNJ
Mapcode Global: VHB1W.FGJC
Plus Code: 9C3WW62Q+PP
Entry Name: Lower Slaughter War Memorial
Listing Date: 13 September 2016
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1437892
ID on this website: 101437892
Location: St Mary's Church, Lower Slaughter, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, GL54
County: Gloucestershire
District: Cotswold
Civil Parish: Lower Slaughter
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire
Church of England Parish: Lower Slaughter St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Gloucester
Tagged with: War memorial
A First World War memorial, erected in 1920, by H H Martyn and Co; a further inscription added after the Second World War.
A First World War memorial, erected in 1920, by H H Martyn and Co; a further inscription added after the Second World War.
MATERIALS: limestone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial takes the form of a stone cross on a tapering shaft, mounted on a square plinth, which stands directly on a three-stepped stone platform. The shaft of the cross carries a carved sword and laurel wreath. The plinth is inscribed: IN MEMORY OF THE MEN / OF THIS PARISH / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 / (followed by the names of the fifteen men who lost their lives) / 1939-1945 / (followed by the name of the soldier who died in that war)/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 10 January 2017.
Lower Slaughter War Memorial was erected in 1920 as part of the great wave of commemoration following the First World War. The cross acted as a memorial to the fifteen men of the village who had died in the conflict. It was designed and made by H H Martyn and Co, a firm of sculptors, carvers and memorial masons based nearby in Cheltenham. The name of the soldier from the parish who had died in the Second World War was added to the cross after 1945.
Lower Slaughter War Memorial 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 stone cross;
* Group value: with the Church of St Mary (Grade II*).
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