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Castle Camps
Town or City: Castle Camps
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
WMT Reference Number: WM349
Value of grant: £1625.00
Type of memorial: Freestanding
Type of work: Conservation and repair
Grant scheme: English Heritage/Wolfson Foundation Grants
Year: 2002
UKNIWM reference number: 8386
The war memorial at Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire, close to the county border with Suffolk, is a lantern cross on a square plinth on a low stone base. It stands on a grassed area. The lantern has three crowns carved in relief on one face, a laurel wreath on another face and a cross on another. The names of the fallen men of both world wars are incised around the plinth, listed under the year in which they fell. The memorial is at the top of the High Street on an apron within its own triangular green.
In July 2002 English Heritage offered a grant of £1625 towards work to clean the memorial using a mid biocide and water, to re-paint some of the lettering, to re-point the joints and carry out some localised mortar repairs to the step, to coat the memorial with a shelter coat incorporating algaecide and to repair or grout losses of mortar on the apron.
The dedication on the memorial reads
To the glory of God
& in grateful memory
of the men of Castle
Camps who gave their
lives in the great wars
1914-1918 & 1939-1945
They loved not their lives unto the death.
The memorial was designed by Thomas Dinham Atkinson.
Further information
War Memorials Trust reference WM349
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 8386
The memorial is listed building number 51259
Further information about Thomas Dinham Atkinson
If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org
