NHER 63867 (Structure record) - World War One memorial with World War Two additions, Horstead with Stanninghall

World War One Memorial with World War Two Additions
Location: Junction of Norwich Road and Mill Road, Horstead.
Type: Latin Cross
Description:
The memorial is constructed from limestone, in the form of a freestanding, Latin cross bottonée beneath a gabled canopy. It is used to commemorate seventeen local servicemen who died in World War One, and latterly two casualties from World War Two. The memorial is described with the cross-head having a “cusp to each angle with ornamental rays between. This crowns a slender octagonal shaft with decorative collar bearing floral motif carvings in relief; the shaft terminates in a square base with inverse chamfered stops. This rises from a four-sided plinth which is chamfered to the top and corner edges, with inverse chamfered stops to the corners. The plinth has a four-sided chamfered foot, which surmounts a two-stepped octagonal base” (S1). There are inscriptions incised and painted black. The former World War One dedication (Inscription A) is to the west face of the plinth, along with seventeen associated names listed on the other sides. The latter World War Two dedication is to the west face of the plinth foot (below the earlier inscription), and comprises two names displayed with the dates 1939 and 1945 to either side.
Proposed: 1920 War Memorial Committee for Horstead Village.
Designed by: Unknown
Constructed/Sculpted By: Designed by Horsman.
Cost: Unknown
Unveiled: 13 November 1921 (by the Dean of Norwich and Captain Michael Falcon, MP).
Inscription A: TO THE MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ HORSTEAD/ WHO DIED FOR/ KING AND COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ MAY THEY REST IN PEACE.
Information from Listing Description (S1) and Historic England Advice Report (S2).
See War Memorials On-line (S4) for images, the War Memorials Register (S5) for images, names and additional details, and the 1920/1921 newspaper articles (S6)/(S7).
P. Beers (HES), 30 January 2020. Amended A. Henderson (HES), 13 December 2024.

October 2017. Listed. Grade II.
See Listing Description (S1), Advice Report (S2) and Consultation Report (S3) for details.
See also War Memorials On-line (S4) and War Memorials Register (S5).
P. Beers (HES), 30 January 2020.