Flore: The War Memorial and Millennium Hall

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 4 Jul 2015

The War Memorial is a prominent feature on the A45 High Street in Flore. It is a Grade II Listed Structure and the English Heritage website describes it thus:- "1923. Duston stone. Triangular with chamfered corners giving way to hexagonal pinnacle bearing the Military Cross in white marble. At the foor [sic] of south side a red granite plaque inscribed with names of those commemorated. At the head of same side a sundial with rising sun above and inscription below: Post Tenebris. Other two sides have crest of the Royal Artillery and arms of the Northamptonshire Regiment. Commemorates those connected with parish who died in World War I. Stepped plinth. Unveiling ceremony performed by Earl Spencer on September 30th 1923. An unusual design inspired by the Eleanor Cross at Geddington." This comment appears in itself to have been taken directly from Kelly's Directory of Northamptonshire 1924. In fact a second plaque is now present below the first commemorating Flore's casualties during the Second World War. The Millennium Hall beyond does not look as if it was constructed in 2000 and is probably the village hall renamed.

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