NHER 64763 (Structure record) - World War One memorial, Honingham

World War One Memorial
Location: Triangular Green, Junction of The Street and Hall Drive, Honingham.
Description:
The memorial is constructed from wood, in the form of a freestanding triptych shrine with double doors. It is used to commemorate thirty-five local servicemen who died in World War One, nineteen from Honingham and sixteen from East Tuddenham. It has been described with a simple triangular-headed canopy covered by a copper alloy, and “doors revealing the calvary with silver-coloured effigy of Christ on a wooden cross. The whole is mounted on ‘legs’ on a concrete platform base” (S1). There are inscriptions on the inside and outside in painted lettering. Prominent reference is made to a son of the Right Honourable Sir Ailwyn Fellowes who commissioned the memorial, by inscribing the name ‘Curly’ (Major Hedworth George Ailwyn Fellowes) on the pediment.
Proposed: 27 June 1919, at a public meeting chaired by the Right Honourable Sir Ailwyn Fellowes.
Constructed/Sculpted By: Unknown.
Unveiled: 28 September 1919 (dedicated by the Bishop of Norwich).
Inscription (pediment): IN/ MEMORY OF/ CURLY/ AND
Inscription (left door): HONINGHAM/ ROLL/ OF HONOUR/ (19 NAMES)
Inscription (right door): E. TUDDENHAM/ ROLL/ OF HONOUR (16 NAMES)
Inscription (centre top): GREATER LOVE HATH/ NO MAN THAN THIS.
Inscription (centre bottom): THE HEROIC DEAD
Inscription (base): SO HE PASSED OVER AND ALL THE TRUMPETS/ SOUNDED FOR HIM ON THE OTHER SIDE.
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 1919 newspaper article (S6).
P. Beers (HES), 21 January 2022.

August 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), 21 January 2022.