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Painswick
Town or City: Painswick
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
WMT Reference Number: WM1627
Value of grant: £500.00
Type of memorial: Freestanding
Type of work: Conservation and repair
Grant scheme: English Heritage/Wolfson Foundation Grants
Year: 2006
UKNIWM reference number: 000000
The war memorial in the central Gloucestershire village of Painswick is a Cotswold stone crucifix on a solid background on a pillar standing on a square plinth. There are dedications on the front of the plinth and the names of the fallen men are inscribed on the other three faces of the memorial. The memorial is on a stepped base on a paved area within the Frederick Gyde Memorial Garden, opposite the town hall and beside the churchyard.
The paving around the memorial was uneven in some cases cracked, so in 2005/6 English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation gave a grant of £500 towards work to take up, re-bed and re-lay the paving around the memorial.
The memorial was designed in 1921 by the architects Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs and Norman Jewson.
The dedication on the memorial reads
"Erected in proud
and loving memory
of the men of Pains-
wick who gave their
lives in the Great
War MCMXIV – XVIII"
After World War II the following was added
"1939 - 1949
Their name liveth for evermore"
Further information
War Memorials Trust reference WM1627
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: Unknown
More information about Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
More information about Norman Jewson
A list of names on the memorial
War Memorials Trust has information that this memorial is listed at Grade II, but the listing record is not yet available at Heritage Gateway
If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org
