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WAR MEMORIAL IN BRANTHAM INDUSTRIAL ESTATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396568
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-2011
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL IN BRANTHAM INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL IN BRANTHAM INDUSTRIAL ESTATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396568
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-2011
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL IN BRANTHAM INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL IN BRANTHAM INDUSTRIAL ESTATE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL IN BRANTHAM INDUSTRIAL ESTATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:: Brantham
National Grid Reference:: TM 10596 33011

Reasons for Designation

The War Memorial in Brantham Industrial Estate has been recommended for designation at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: it is an important reminder of nationally and internationally significant events * Architectural interest: a good example of a relatively simple but architecturally distinct tribute to the fallen of two World Wars * Social interest: it is unusual in that it remembers those who worked for a specific company rather than those who lived in a particular community as is often the case

Details

BRANTHAM

1344/0/10009 War Memorial in Brantham Industrial Es 21-FEB-11 tate

II War memorial, 1948

MATERIALS: stone and bronze

PLAN: stepped, cross base plinth surmounted by square based pedestal and tapered shaft.

The inscription on the west side reads 'IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF THE GALLANT/ MEN WHO LEFT THIS PLACE/ TO FIGHT IN THE CAUSE/ OF LIBERTYAND JUSTICE/ AND WHO LAID DOWN THEIR/ LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919/ (NAMES) / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVER MORE'.

Beneath this inscription a second bronze plaque is inscribed 'AND IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF THEIR COMRADES/ WHO DIED FOR THE SAME CAUSE/ DURING THE YEARS 1939-1945/ (NAMES)'.

The factory, in the years covered by the memorial, was British Xylonite, who had another factory at Hale End, Walthamstow, London Borough of Hackney. The names on the east face of the memorial are men from the Brantham factory those on the west face are those from Hale End who lost their lives in one of the two world wars.

HISTORY: the concept of commemorating war dead did not develop to any great extent until towards the end of the 19th century. Prior to then memorials were rare and were mainly dedicated to individual officers, or sometimes regiments. The first large-scale erection of war memorials dedicated to the ordinary soldier followed the Second Boer War of 1899-1902, which was the first major war following reforms to the British Army which led to regiments being recruited from local communities and with volunteer soldiers. However, it was the aftermath of the First World War that was the great age of memorial building, both as a result of the huge impact the death of three quarters of a million British lives had on communities and the official policy of not repatriating the dead, which meant that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss.

The War Memorial in Brantham Industrial Estate was unveiled on 7th November 1948 by a Mr L. P. B Merriam. It commemorates those who had worked in the adjacent factory and were killed in either the First or Second World Wars.

SOURCES: UK National Inventory of War Memorials. Ref 11463

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: The War Memorial in Brantham Industrial Estate is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Historic Interest: it is an important reminder of nationally and internationally significant events * Architectural interest: a good example of a relatively simple but architecturally distinct tribute to the fallen of two world wars * Social interest: it is unusual in that it remembers those who worked for a specific company rather than those who lived in a particular community, as is more often the case

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 10 August 2017.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 505616
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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War Memorials Online, accessed 10 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/251266
War Memorials Register, accessed 13 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/11463

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.