Purpose: War Memorial Cross.

Size:  The cross is 9 feet (2.74 metres) tall, 2 feet 4 inches (0.71 metres) wide across the arms and the shaft measures 14 inches (0.36 metres) by 12 inches (0.31 metres).

Information:  This fairly modern cross is of the Maltese type, with a slightly tapering shaft and arms.  All the edges of both the shaft and arms have been chamfered from a few inches above the base of the shaft.  It sits in a square socket, on a plinth of two steps.  The socket stone, which has been fancily chamfered around the top edge, measures 3 feet 8 inches (1.12 metres) wide, by 3 feet 5 inches (1.04 metres) deep and 15 inches (0.38 metres) high.  The socket sits on two octagonal plinths, with the upper one being 6 feet (1.83 metres) across and 9 inches (0.23 metres) high and the lower one 8 feet (2.44 metres) across by 12 inches (0.31 metres) high.  Alternate edges of the upper plinth shows the dates 1914, 1919, 1939 and 1945, being a reminder of the commencement and end years of the two World Wars.  The socket stone, above the year of 1939, shows the text:

"O, VALIANT HEARTS, WHO TO YOUR GLORY CAME

THROUGH DUST OF CONFLICT AND THROUGH BATTLE-FLAME 

TRANQUIL YOU LIE, YOUR KNIGHTLY VIRTUE PROVED,

YOUR MEMORY HALLOWED IN THE LAND YOU LOVED."

Inside the church porch, propped up in the corner each side of the entrance door, are two portions of chamfered cross shaft.  Nothing seems to be known about the cross or crosses from which these sections came, but the two pieces have now been brought into the church for safekeeping.  The apex of the church porch is topped off by another fine cross.  The shaft and arms of this cross are square in design, with the end of the arms and the top of the cross being furnished with curved ends.  Built into the porch wall directly below the apex cross, is a sun dial which would have served as the forerunner to a church clock.  The church roof also has an embellished celtic cross on the apex of the transept, a few yards to the east of the porch cross.