NHER 63921 (Structure record) - World War One memorial with World War Two additions, Stoke Ferry

World War One Memorial with World War Two Additions
Location: Town Square, High Street, Stoke Ferry.
Type: Wheel-head Cross
Description:
The memorial is constructed from grey granite, in the form of a freestanding, rough-hewn, wheel-head cross approximately 3m tall. It is used to commemorate seventeen local servicemen who died in World War One, and latterly [two] men who died in World War Two. It is described as “on a tapering plinth with a two-stepped stone base with four low stone bollards at each corner of the wide lower step” (S1). There are inscriptions on marble plaques in incised, blacked lettering. The former World War One dedication (Inscription A) is to the bottom of the cross shaft, with seventeen associated names to the front face of the plinth below. The latter World War Two dedication, and three associated names (Inscription B), are further down on the same plinth plaque (the position of inscriptions identified from S4).
Proposed: Date unknown.
Designed by: Unknown
Constructed/Sculpted By: Unknown.
Cost: Unknown
Unveiled: Assumed planned and erected around 1920, when the majority of Norfolk’s war memorials were commissioned. Additional research required.
Inscription A: IN/ HONOURED/ MEMORY OF/ OUR GALLANT/ FALLEN FROM/ THIS VILLAGE/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918.
Inscription B: (17 Names)/ WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945/ (2 NAMES).
Information from Listing Description (S1) and Historic England Advice Report (S2).
See War Memorials On-line (S4) for images and the War Memorials Register (S5) for images, names and additional details.
P. Beers (HES), 15 June 2020. Amended A. Henderson (HES), 14 January 2025.

June 2018. 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), 15 June 2020.