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Old Buckenham
Town or City: Old Buckenham
County: Norfolk
Country: England
WMT Reference Number: WM1459
Value of grant: £365.00
Type of memorial: Freestanding
Type of work: Conservation and repair
Grant scheme: English Heritage/Wolfson Foundation Grants
Year: 2004
UKNIWM reference number: 53358
The war memorial in the village of Old Buckenham in southern Norfolk is a Portland stone design after Sir Reginald Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice. It stands on an octagonal plinth and stepped base. There are black-painted inscriptions around the plinth and the base. The memorial stands on the Green and is surrounded by a black post and chain fence and gate. A York stone pathway leads to the memorial.
In 2004/5 English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation gave a grant of £365 towards work to clean the stone with algaecide, to rake out loose or defective joints and re-point with lime mortar. The damaged paving slabs on the pathway were repaired.
Around the top of the plinth is lettering which reads:
"For God, for king, for country"
The names of the fallen of World War I are inscribed around the plinth below this. On the top step are the dates "MCMXIV – MCMXIX" and below them the text:
"If his dust is one day lying
in an unfamiliar land
(England he went for you)
O England sometimes think of him
of thousands only one
in the dawning or the noonday
or the setting of the sun
as once he thought of you."
On the bottom step are the dates "MCMXXXIX- MCMXLV" and the names of the fallen of World War II.
On the back of the memorial is the text
"In memory of the men
of Old Buckenham who
fell in the Great War
this cross was erected
by Lionel Robinson of
Old Buckenham Hall
High Sheriff of the county
of Norfolk in the year 1916"
Lionel Robinson was an Australian businessman who lived in Old Buckenham Hall between 1907 and 1922.
Further information
War Memorials Trust reference WM1459
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 53358
If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org