Langton Green War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST THE GREEN (south side),LANGTON GREEN 7/494 War Memorial GV II War Memorial. Circa 1919 with an extra plaque added 1946. Sandstone ashlar. Tall Gothic-style cross in memory of those killed in the First World War. Tall and slightly tapering octagonal shaft with moulded cap with cross sitting on top. Its own shaft has small gabled buttresses and cross itself a kind of fleuree design. Main shaft in a chamfered socket stone on a tall pedestal with moulded top. Its corners are chamfered. Wider chamfers at top enriched with shields carved with Sacred Emblems and it tapers below through a stop to a narrower chamfer. The plaque on the south side praises the dead of the First World War and plaques on the other sides record their names. Pedestal on an octagonal 4-step plinth on a paved base. A brass plaque on the top step has been set in to commemorate the local dead of the Second World War. Listing NGR: TQ5435539273 This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 1 December 2016. Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 439020 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.