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Hatfield Heath
Town or City: Hatfield Heath
County: Essex
Country: England
WMT Reference Number: WM2850
Value of grant: £380.00
Type of memorial: Freestanding
Type of work: Conservation and repair
Grant scheme: English Heritage/Wolfson Foundation Grants
Year: 2004
UKNIWM reference number: 56341
The war memorial in the village of Hatfield Heath in western Essex, near the county border with Hertfordshire, is a Portland stone wheel cross on a plinth on a trapezium shaped base with splayed sloping faces. There is a hemisphere of stone in the middle of the cross. The names of the fallen are carved on the faces of the plinth and on the base. On one face of the base is carved a laurel wreath in half relief, with a crown in the centre. The memorial stands on a square gravelled area within York stone slabs behind a post and chain fence on the Heath.
In 2004/5 English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation offered a grant of £380 towards work to clean the memorial of lichen, moss, surface grime and staining, to repair the defective joints and to re-point.
On the front of the plinth is the dedication
"In memory of
our men who fell
in the Great War
1914 -1919"
The names of the World War I fallen are inscribed on the other three sides of the plinth. On the back of the memorial, on the face of the sloping base, the names of the World War II fallen have been inscribed into the stone.
The memorial was erected in 1920 and the building firm was J Day and Sons.
Further information
War Memorials Trust reference WM2850
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 56341
War Memorials Trust has information that this memorial is listed at Grade II, but at the time of writing the listing record was not available on Heritage Gateway.
If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org
