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    Memorial

    Wark

    Wark Cross

    Source: Copyright Derek Rootham

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    Current Location

    Village Green, Wark, Tynedale, Northumberland, NE48 3LX, England

    OS Grid Reference

    NY 86106 77059

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    Names

    Names listed on this memorial

    • R F Bolton

    • N E Charlton

    • Walton Bell

    • F Hunter

    • J H Milburn

    • W R Rutherford

    • R Smith

    • J R Weir

    • J T Harding

    • J Hunter

    • D S Robson

    • R Shortridge

    • J A Hope

    • J Hutton

    • J T Dodd

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    Type of Memorial
    Cross
    WMR Reference Number
    34280
    Description
    Stone Cross “of chaste design” on square pedestal standing on three octagonal steps within low fenced area. The names from the 1914-18 war are inscribed on the sides, while those from 1939-45 are on the back, all lettering incised using sans serif capitals throughout. There are stone troughs at the outer extremities of three lowest steps.
    Inscription
    SIDE ONE: IN MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918 SIDE TWO AND THREE: (NAMES) SIDE FOUR: 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    12
    Died
    12
    Information shown
    surname,rank,regiment, initial of forename
    Order of names
    surname
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Number Commemorated
    5
    Died
    5
    Information shown
    surname, initial of forename, rank, service
    Maker(s)
    • MESSRS HICKS & CHARLEWOOD, Designer

    • RB Aves of Hexham, Builder

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    26 March 1921

    Lieutenant Colonel T.G. Taylor, D.S.O., Gordon Highlanders

    Dedicated

    26 March 1921

    Rev. E.C. Bredin, Rector of Wark

    Custodian
    Handed over to the Parish Council at the unveiling ceremony.

    Components

    Cross

    Height: 4000MM

    Width: 2500MM

    Depth: 2500MM


    Made from: Stone - Sandstone


    Condition: Good


    Historic England

    Grade: II

    List Entry: 1391547

    • http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=9239
    • Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 2 April 1921 reports unveiling.
    • Haltwhistle Echo 1 April 1921 reports unveiling
    • Hexham Courant 14 March 1996 feature 75 years ago mentions the unveiling of the war memorial.
    • Morpeth County Library Frith collection of photographs, one of which shows the monument backed by a low stone wall rather than the fence which is there now.
    • In Silent Fortitude: In Memory of the Men of the North Tyne Valley who Fell in the Great War; Alan Isaac Grint; 2011; Ergo Press; ISBN 9780955751097