War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial

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An obelisk memorial standing on a moulded plinth, with inscriptions picked out in black paint on three sides, and a two-tiered base.
Title

War Memorial

Date

1920

Medium

Cornish granite

Accession number

EX6_VH_S017

Acquisition method

commissioned and donated by Mr Joshua John Neale of Oxton House

Work type

War memorial

Owner

Kenton Parish Council

Custodian

Kenton Parish Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Unveiling date

13th March 1920

Listing date

30/03/15

Access

at all times

Inscription description

face one: IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN / THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 /. "THEIR NAME LIVETH EVERMORE" ECCLUS XLIV.14. / "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A / MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS," St John XV.10. / "I SAW THEM THAT HAD GOTTEN VICTORY OVER THE BEAST .....STAND ON THE SEA OF GLASS, HAVING THE HARPS OF GOD". REV XV.2; face two: (names of the fallen from the First World War); face three: "ALSO / IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF / THESE FROM THIS PARISH WHO / IN LIKE SPIRIT FELL DURING / THE WORLD WAR / 1939-1945"; (list of names from the Second World War)

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Located at

Fore Street, Kenton

EX6 8LD

Located on the village green, just off the A379 Exeter to Dawlish Road.