This photograph was taken November
11th 2007 of Bradenstoke's Ancient Stone Cross commonly
known as the War Memorial, standing proudly on the
old Market Square adjacent to the Old Trooper House
which was a publiv House called The Jolly Trooper and
prior to that Saracens Head. .
A market was granted to the priory at Bradenstoke
in 1361, and the small community of Clack grew up outside
the priory to serve its needs. This limestone cross
is first mentioned in 1547 and Clack is decribed as
a market town in 1628. It now stands in front of the
church of 1866, which seems to have been built on the
southern part of the old market place. Clack later
became known as Bradenstoke after the priory name.
On the cross is a bronze memorial plaque to the local
men who died in the First World War.
It reads "The Great
War, This tablet was fixed to the memory of Bradenstoke
men who fought & fell and to remind future generations
of the sacrifice they made. " |
