Building record 5569 - Kerridge War Memorial

<1> Cheshire East Council, 2010, Cheshire East LDF Local List of Historic Buildings (Report). SCH5404.

Private war memorial constructed by the people of Kerridge in 1918. Located at the crossing with rally road (railway road), which was once a Tramway from the quarries to the canal wharf. The memorial is constructed from local stone and is set in landscaped gardens.

<2> Historic England, 2011, The National Heritage List for England, 1432638 (Web Site). SCH6528.

In 1919 a local committee was formed to consider the erection of a permanent memorial to the Kerridge men who died in the First World War. The memorial cost £242, raised through voluntary subscriptions from local people. The site on the Endon Hall estate was given by Col W Brocklehurst. The memorial is located at the crossing of Oak Lane and a tramway which connected the Kerridge stone quarries to the canal wharf. The mason completed the work at the canal wharf during the summer of 1919 and the monument was dedicated in September 1919. Names were also added of the Fallen from the Second World War. It is shown on its current site in a photograph of 1919. Two later stone steps have replaced the small grass mound on which the memorial originally stood.