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Bradford-on-Tone
Town or City: Bradford-on-Tone
County: Somerset
Country: England
WMT Reference Number: WM1564
Value of grant: £300.00
Type of memorial: Freestanding
Type of work: Conservation and repair
Grant scheme: English Heritage/Wolfson Foundation Grants
Year: 2005
UKNIWM reference number: 24905
The war memorial in the Somerset village of Bradford-on-Tone stands in front of the churchyard wall of St Giles’. The memorial is a granite wheel cross on a plinth and a stepped base. It stands on a slope on a concrete foundation and is surrounded by a low post and chain fence. There are beds of shrubs to either side. A dedication and a list of names in raised lettering are on the plinth and the top step. The memorial stands at the central crossroads of the village.
In 2005/6 English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation offered a grant of £300 towards work to clean the memorial with water, to remove the cement skim outer coating of the foundation and the front step of the base and to reapply it to match the original, to repair the concrete posts and to clean and re-paint the metal chain.
On one face of the plinth the text reads
"We pray you to
remember the men
who left this parish, who
laid down their lives
in the Great War
1914-1918
and who fell in
the Second World War
1939-1945"
Lists of the fallen men are recorded on other faces of the plinth.
The memorial was built in the early 1920s.
Further information
War Memorials Trust reference WM1564
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 24905
War Memorials Trust has information that this memorial is listed at Grade II, but the listing record is not yet available on Heritage Gateway
If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org
