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North Rauceby
Town or City: North Rauceby
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
WMT Reference Number: WM30
Value of grant: £722.00
Type of memorial: Freestanding
Type of work: Conservation and repair
Grant scheme: English Heritage/Wolfson Foundation Grants
Year: 2001
UKNIWM reference number: 42978
The war memorial in the western Lincolnshire village of North Rauceby is an elaborate cross on a pillar, standing on a plinth and a two-stepped base. The cross has elongated cusps in the angles between the arms of the cross and solid foliate carving around the ends of the arms. The pillar has brattishing at the top and moulding at the base. The octagonal plinth is carved with shallow recessed panels topped by blind tracery. Within the recessed panels are inscriptions, apart from one face which has a carved relief of a laurel weath. The memorial is made of local Ancaster stone and stands in the churchyard of St Peter. It commemorates the fallen of both North and South Rauceby.
In 2001/2 English Heritage made a grant of £722 towards work to clean the memorial using water at low pressure supplemented, where necessary, with gentle brushing with natural bristle brushes. Names on the memorial were also re-cut with hand tools to match the original script.
The memorial was built in the early 1920s by Mr Bland, the stonemason to the Amcott family’s Rauceby estate.
Further information
War Memorials Trust reference WM30
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 42978
Heritage Gateway listing record: 487925
If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org
