Parish/DistrictBrant Broughton and Stragglethorpe/
North Kesteven
LocationWar memorial cross in St Helen’s churchyard, Brant Broughton
CategoryChurchyard cross
National Grid RefSK 9153 5387
DesignationNone
Stone typeLimestone (Clipsham stone)
RefsLincs HER MLI60388; Credland, M., 2014. The First World War Memorials of Lincolnshire. p.57.
VisitsDS/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.

Brant Broughton

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