NHER 64738 (Structure record) - World War One memorial with World War Two additions, Burnham Market

World War One Memorial with World War Two Additions
Location: The Green, Marketplace, Burnham Market.
Description:
The memorial is constructed from granite, in the form of a freestanding, rough-hewn, wheel-head cross. It is used to commemorate thirty-four members of the local community who died in World War One, and latterly ten men who died in World War Two. It is described with “Celtic knot work carved into the front face of the cross head.” Rising “from a tapering polished plinth, standing on a two-stepped rough-hewn base” (S1). The whole set within a railed enclosure with eight granite post. There are inscriptions on the plinth in applied metal lettering. The former World War One dedication is to the front face (Inscription A), with twenty-one associated names listed to the side faces. The latter World War Two dedication is to the rear face along with ten associated names (Inscription C).
Proposed: Date unknown. Committee presided over by Reverend T. F. Falkard.
Constructed/Sculpted By: Unknown.
Unveiled: Erected by November 1920.
Inscription A: IN/ MEMORY OF THE MEN OF/ BURNHAM WESTGATE,/ BURNHAM SUTTON/ AND/ BURNHAM NORTON/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919.
Inscription B: 1939 - 1945/ “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS”/ ST. JOHN CHAPTER 15 13 V/ (10 NAMES).
Information from Listing Description (S1) and Historic England Advice Report (S2).
See War Memorials On-line (S4) for images, War Memorials Register (S5) for images, names and additional details, and the 1920 newspaper article (S6)
P. Beers (HES), 12 May 2021.

January 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), 12 May 2021.