War memorial in S churchyard wall of Church of All Saints (Maldon) (EHER 38383)

A First World War memorial of around 1920, with alterations in 1946.

October 1996. Grade II listed. A First World War memorial from around 1920 and altered in 1946. It is made from Portland stone with a bronze plaque insert. It is a perpendicular-style memorial on two stone steps of octagonal plan form. The main part is an octagonal stone drum with finials to the buttresses, and a crocketed ogee arch with cinquefoiled head on each face, containing a bronze plaque. It has a crenelated cornice and tent-like top sweeping up to a small octagonal drum with cornice of Tudor-flower ornament and trefoil-headed panels. This forms base for a tapering octagonal cross shaft with cross of four major trefoiled arms and with four minor diagonal arms with smaller trefoil terminations. The memorial is set in a recess of the low south churchyard wall which has stone coping and wrought-iron railings enclosing three bronze plaques (one missing) commemorating the 1939-45 war. <1> See photo <2>.