War Memorial - St Anne’s Church Church Road East Sale Cheshire

The stone cross standing 11 feet 6 inches in height and constructed of grey Aberdeen granite, was erected at a cost £300. It was designed by Mr Herbert Brown, FRIBA, of Beaufort Avenue, Brooklands and Brazennose St, Manchester (voluntary). The design shows a wreath of laurel leaves suspended from the head of the cross and in the centre of the wreath palms are displayed. On panels round the plinth of the structure are inscribed the names of the dead and the face of the plinth bears the following inscription, which appears beneath the words “OUR FALLEN HEROES” worked in a bronze colour in medallion form:

OUR FALLEN HEROES

TO THE GLORY OF GOD THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS OF ST ANNE’S CHURCH, SALE, WHOSE NAMES ARE INSCRIBED HEREON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES TO DEFEND THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919

THEY COUNTED NOT THEIR LIVES DEAR UNTO THEMSELVES