| Parish/District | Brant Broughton and Stragglethorpe/ North Kesteven |
| Location | War memorial cross in St Helen’s churchyard, Brant Broughton |
| Category | Churchyard cross |
| National Grid Ref | SK 9153 5387 |
| Designation | None |
| Stone Type | Limestone (Clipsham stone) |
| Refs | Lincs HER MLI60388; Credland, M., 2014. The First World War Memorials of Lincolnshire. p.57. |
| Visits | DS/HH: 24 August 2012 |
The Lincs HER (and the sign on the monument) suggests that the Brant Broughton war memorial was created from an existing medieval cross base in Brant Broughton churchyard. The HER also comments: Brant Broughton’s First World War memorial is formed of Clipsham stone and is situated to the south side of St Helen’s churchyard. The memorial is surmounted by a battlemented gabled canopy containing a crucifixion on the north side and Madonna and Child on the south. Below this is an octagonal shaft of fourteen and a half feet (4m). The base was formerly part of the font until renovations between 1877 and 1919. It has been speculated the base was originally part of a medieval churchyard cross.
This is perhaps one of the less convincing medieval cross conversions – the style of the socket stone is not typically medieval, but a report in the Newark Herald of 23 August 1919 states: ‘The cross in the burial ground surrounding the fine old church of St Helen has been recently restored at the cost of the parishioners as a memorial of all those who gave their lives for King and country in the Great War . . . ‘
