Sand Hutton and Claxton War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details War memorial commemorating the fallen of the First World War and Second World War. Designer, Ernest Robert Walker, the fifth son of Sir James Robert Walker, second Baronet of Sand Hutton. Stone. PLAN: cross set on a high, octagonal pedestal raised on three octagonal steps. DESCRIPTION: the war memorial stands at the angled corner of a field at the junction of two small roads, the left-hand road linking Sand Hutton to the south and Claxton to the north. It has a tall, tapering cross with an inset wheel with relief-carved frame and zig-zag pattern. The cross has a deep, shaped plinth set on the convex-curved cap of a tall, octagonal pedestal. The pedestal has four wider panels separated by narrower panels. All have relief-carved frames. The main front panel has the relief-carved inscription, REMEMBER / THOSE FROM / SANDHUTTON / AND / CLAXTON / WHO DIED / FOR THEIR / COUNTRY / 1914-1919. The two main side panels each have seven relief-carved names with a small relief depiction of a Yorkshire rose above and below. The narrower panels between the main front and side panels have relief-carved swords, point down. The main rear panel has two relief-carved names above the dates 1939-1945 with similar Yorkshire roses above and below. The narrower panels between the main rear and side panels have relief-carved panelling.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.