The front of the memorial in St Peter's churchyard, Wolvercote faces east towards the side door of the church.

This memorial, which stands about 2.5 metres high, comprises a stone Celtic cross surmounting a tapering square column standing on a square stone pedestal. This in turn stands on a simple base.

The text on the front of the pedestal reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF
THE MEN OF WOLVERCOTE
WHO NOBLY GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR COUNTRY
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914–1918

The names of 53 men of Wolvercote who were killed in the First World War are listed on the other three sides of the pedestal.

The dead of the Second World War have not been added, but these are remembered on an oak board inside the church.

The names are in alphabetical order until the third side.

This memorial was designated a Grade II listed structure on 18 October 2017: List Entry No. 1449828. This followed an application made under the Historic England scheme to add 2,500 free-standing First World War memorials to the National Heritage List for England between 2014 and 2018: The War Memorials Listing Project

The names below have been linked to pages on the Commonwealth War Graves Committee website. Some are named by the CWGC as living in Wolvercote, and many of the men are pictured in the Oxford Journal Illustrated with the name of their regiment, which has enabled the identification of others. Those which have not been verified have [?] after their names.

Key: “also St Thomas” = also on the war memorial of St Thomas's Church, Oxford and “also St Giles” = also on the war memorial of St Giles's Church Oxford