Stanway War Memorial
 "Stanway War Memorial")
Stanway War Memorial is situated at the junction of the B4077 road (which runs from Stow-on-the-Wold to Teddington Hands) and the southernmost end of the Stanton Road.
The elaborate war memorial consists of a bronze figure of Saint George spearing a dragon (by Alexander Fisher), wound around a squat stone pillar (by Sir Philip Stott carved by Eric Gill)
Front of plinth
MEN OF STANWAY 1914 - 1918
FOR A TOMB THEY HAVE AN ALTAR
FOR LAMENTATIONS MEMORY
FOR PITY PRAISE.
Rear of plinth
FOR YOUR TO-MORROW
WE GAVE OUR TO-DAY
side of the plinth.
ALFRED HENRY BUGGINS
FRANK BUGGINS
HENRY CHARLES THOMBS
HUBERT THOMBS
ERNEST JAMES TOWNSEND
FRANCIS LANE
HUGO FRANCIS CHARTERIS
LORD ELCHO IVO ALAN CHARTERIS
CHARLES RICHARD GERALD MITCHELL
WILLIAM JAMES EWINGTON
FREDERICK STARKEY
St. Peter's Church
In the church the same WWI names are carved either side of the one window.
A bronze plaque is fixed to the sill of the same window. -
REMEMBER ALSO
LAWRENCE JOHN SAMUEL BOLTON
AND
REGINALD VICTOR TURPITT
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR 1939 - 1945
Note: The above memorials may well also include dead from the village of Wood Stanway and the small hamlet of Taddington, both of which are in the parish of Stanway.
List and photograph provided by Evan Lewis