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The war memorial in the village of Radway in southern Warwickshire is a Grade II listed lychgate to St Peter’s church on Tysoe Road. It has a wooden frame and gates and a Cotswold slate roof. On the main upright posts of the memorial are brass plaques commemorating, on one side, those who fell in the World War I, and on the other, those who served and returned. A plaque commemorating the fallen of World War II has been added. A further plaque with a dedication is attached to the crossbeam.

The memorial has received multiple grants and the summary details of this record relate to the most recent grant.

In January 2004 English Heritage offered a grant of £225 towards work to undertake a condition survey of the lychgate.

Subsequently, in January 2005 English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation gave a grant of £4040 towards work to carry out repairs to the timbers and the roof. This work involved removing and cleaning the existing slates, removing the existing slate battens and replacing them with new, re-hanging slates, re-pointing the mortar on the plinth sections supporting the memorial, repairing, cleaning and applying preservative to the oak frame, correcting the gates so that they opened properly, replacing a worn part of the gate post, de-rusting, decorating and oiling the ironmongery and applying teak oil to all the wood. The brass plaques were also polished.

During the course of the work it was found that the condition of the salvaged slates made them unsuitable for reuse, so in May 2005 War Memorials Trust offered a grant of £400 towards replacement slates.

The dedication above the memorial reads

This lych-gate is erected in grateful remembrance
of those belonging to this village
who served in the Great War 1914 – 1918

The plaque commemorating the fallen reads

In sacred memory
of those who
fell in the war

Howard Adams
Thomas Askew
Edward Astell
Maurice Gibbins
Alastair R. Gwyer (Capt.)
John Lindon
Thomas Newell
Robert West

RIP

The plaque commemorating those who returned reads

In honoured memory of
those who served in the war
and were spared to return

The list of names follows under this. One of them is Field Marshall Earl Haig, who lived at Radway Grange before World War I.

The World War II plaque reads

In sacred memory
of those who fell
on active service
1939 – 1945
T. McCluskey
S.F. Padbury

R.I.P.

The memorial was dedicated in 1923 by the Bishop of Coventry.

Further information

War Memorials Trust reference WM756
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 19383

The memorial is listed building number 490440

If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org

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