Brompton-on-Swale War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1410577
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-2013
- List Entry Name:
- Brompton-on-Swale War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1410577
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-2013
- List Entry Name:
- Brompton-on-Swale War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Brompton-on-Swale Cemetery, Bridge Road, Brompton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brompton-on-Swale
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2211299654
Summary
First World War memorial of a fairly typical, standard design being in the form of a simple Celtic cross.
Reasons for Designation
Brompton-on-Swale war memorial is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as a poignant reminder of the impact of tragic world events on an individual community, slightly unusually in this case by including the names of civilian casualties as well as service personnel;
* Cultural interest: the continued use of the war memorial by the local community adds to its significance;
* Architectural interest: although the design of the memorial is fairly typical, it is well executed.
History
Nothing is known about the commissioning or erection of the war memorial in Brompton-on-Swale cemetery. The primary inscription is to the fallen from the First World War so it is believed that it dates to the inter-war period with a later inscription added after the Second World War. The memorial is not just to servicemen but includes the names of two civilians (Station Master Walter Gibson and Railway Clerk Nancy Richardson) who were killed on the 4th Feb 1944 when a munitions train exploded at Catterick. The history of those commemorated by the war memorial has been researched by a local historian (see sources).
Details
War Memorial erected after the First World War.
MATERIALS: granite Celtic cross with applied inscriptions to the cross base set on a simple, single limestone step within a kerbed enclosure.
DESCRIPTION: main inscription is on the south face and reads:
TO THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS CROSS IS ERECTED IN THANKFUL / REMEMBRANCE TO THE FOLLOWING WHO / MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE/GREAT EUROPEAN WAR / 1914 -1918
Followed by 11 names with first name followed by surname without reference to rank or unit.
The east (side) face reads:
ALSO TO THOSE WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939-1945
Followed by a further 11 names in the same format as the south face inscription.
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, 1 February 2017.
Sources
Websites
Brompton-on-Swale War Memorial, North Yorkshire, and those commemorated the, accessed from http://www.1948diary.com/uploads/2/8/9/0/2890396/brompton-on-swale_war_memorial_part1.pdf
War Memorials Register, accessed 1 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/30082
War Memorials Online, accessed 1 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/94219
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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