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Longstanton
Town or City: Longstanton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
WMT Reference Number: WM1342
Value of grant: £520.00
Type of memorial: Freestanding
Type of work: Conservation and repair
Grant scheme: English Heritage/Wolfson Foundation Grants
Year: 2004
UKNIWM reference number: 000000
The war memorial in the village of Longstanton, Cambridgeshire, is a plain cross on a pillar, standing on a double plinth and a four-stepped base within a gravelled area in the churchyard of All Saint’s on the High Street.
In 2004/5 English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation offered a grant of £520 towards work to clean with water and biocide if necessary, to rake out open and defective joints and re-point them, to re-paint the incised letters and to check on structural soundness.
The inscription on the front of the plinth reads:
"In honoured memory
of the
men of Longstanton
who gave their lives
in the Great War 1914 -1918
Sidney Crisp
William Thomas Hard
Leonard Jellings
Ernest George North
Albert James Phillips
Ernest Phillips
William A. Phypers
Albert B. Rignall
Lewis Smith"
The names of the fallen of World War II have been added to the side face of the plinth:
"1939 – 1945
Frederick Keep
Cyril S. Wayman
Frederick E. Wayman"
Further information
War Memorials Trust reference WM1342
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: Unknown
Heritage Gateway listing record: 493288
If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org
