Cross 1914-18 1939-45 Crossroads

On triangular green at crossroads in village.

a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45

a. Unveiled August 1921 by Col. E.P.A. Riddell, C.M.G., D.S.O., Commander, Northumberland Infantry Brigade.

Stone

Mr. and Mrs. Straker.

Made by Mr. J. Robinson, Clay House, Meldon.
Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens

Front
Pass
Friend
All is well

1914
Hartburn
1919

Rear
1939
Hartburn
1945

Cross on tall, plain tapering shaft with deeply bevelled edges, on stepped base of four stages.

The dedication for 1914-18 is on the front and that for 1939-45 on the back incised in Roman capitals.

1. This is identical to the memorial on Holy Island. There are others of similar design elsewhere.

2. The Strakers lived at Angerton Hall, where Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll had designed the garden in 1904.

3. The cross was upgraded to Grade II* in Heritage England Listing in 2015.

Historic England Listing

Photo: P. Thirkell;
photo of unveiling ceremony: F.A. Fletcher

Morpeth Herald
12/08/1921 reports unveiling.

Illustrated Chronicle
02/08/1921 reports unveiling with photo.

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle
06/08/1921 reports unveiling.

Buildings of Northumberland Nikolaus Pevsner.

Lutyens and the Great War Tim Skelton and Gerald Gliddon, 2008, Frances Lincoln Ltd., ISBN 978 0 7112 2878 8, pages 83, 169

Source of quotation
“Pass friend, all’s well” – words said by a sentry on duty to allow somebody through after being challenged at the gate.

Alan Angus;
F.A. Fletcher;
Philip Thirkell;
John Swan Perry;
Northumberland County Council;
Janet Brown;
T. Harding;
Dorothy Hall

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