the 'sledmere cross' takes the form of an eleanor cross and is a true 'folly' that was 'converted' in 1919 to a war memorial by sir mark sykes (of the sykes–picot agreement) who added a series of brass portraits in commemoration of his friends and the local men who fell in the war and also notably himself in crusader armour with the inscription “laetare jerusalem (rejoice jerusalem)”.