NHER 64767 (Structure record) - World War One memorial, Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich

World War One Memorial
Location: St Matthew's Church driveway, Telegraph Lane West, Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich.
Description:
The memorial is constructed from stone and marble, in the form of a freestanding wheel-head cross. It is used to commemorate one hundred and twenty-eight servicemen who died in world War One. It is described “with ornate foliate lopes attached to the four quarters of the wheel, on a tapering octagonal shaft with moulded collar and foot, atop a four-sided plinth with chamfered corners and edges, on a three-tiered base” (S1). The whole is raised upon a brick-edged platform. There is an inscription to the memorial in incised, blacked lettering. The principal inscription is to the front face of the plinth (Inscription A) and continues to the upper tier of the base (Inscription B). The associated names are listed in two columns to the remaining three faces of the plinth (S5). The memorial was relocated, possibly around 1982, from within the churchyard of the original St Matthew’s Church (NHER26470) of 1851 at Thorpe Hamlet, to where it currently resides at the driveway of St Matthew’s Church of 1982, Telegraph Lane West, Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich.
Proposed: Date unknown.
Constructed/Sculpted by: Unknown.
Unveiled: 25 September 1921.
Inscription A: 1914 - 1919/ YOU LIVE FOR ENGLAND/ WE FOR ENGLAND DIED.
Inscription B: IN THANKSGIVING FOR THESE AND ALL MEN AND WOMEN/ OF THORPE HAMLET WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES/ IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY.
Information from Listing Description (S1) and Historic England Advice Report (S2).
See War Memorials On-line (S4) for images and War Memorials Register (S5) for images, names and additional details.
P. Beers (HES), 03 February 2022.

November 2003. Restoration.
Sometime after 1982 the memorial was vandalised, and then restored in November 2003.
Restored By: Unknown.
Unveiled: Re-dedicated in November 2003.
Information from Listing Description (S1) and Historic England Advice Report (S2).
P. Beers (HES), 03 February 2022.

May 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), 03 February 2022.