Brackley War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1425145
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Brackley War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1425145
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Brackley War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Market Place, Brackley, Northamptonshire, NN13 7DP
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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:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brackley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5845936851
Summary
War memorial, 1920. Additions for later conflicts.
Reasons for Designation
Brackley War Memorial, in the town's central Market Place, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Design: an ambitious and slightly unusual design, whose scale befits its prominent place in the town’s Market Place;
* Group value: with various listed buildings around the Market Place, including the Town Hall (Grade II*).
History
The memorial was unveiled on 5 October 1920 by General Lord Horne. Additional names and inscriptions were added in 1945 commemorating the dead of the Second World War. The memorial was cleaned and the lettering repainted in 1989. In 2006 as part of civic improvements the memorial was moved within the Market Place closer to the Town Hall. The name of a serviceman killed in Afghanistan has been added. The memorial was cleaned and the lettering re-painted in 2014.
Details
The memorial stands in the south-west part of Brackley’s long Market Place, in a pedestrianized area in front of the Grade II*-listed Town Hall. Of Clipsham limestone, it comprises a three-stepped octagonal base surmounted by a c6 m high, three-tiered, octagonal column, each face slightly concave, surmounted by a cross. The lowest tier carries the names of the theatres of war and the great battles. The 68 names of the fallen from the First World War are recorded in the middle tier. The principal dedication, inscribed on a plaque on the upper part of the middle tier, reads TO THE MEN OF/ BRACKLEY/ WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR KING/ AND COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919. Above the plaque, in a decorative cartouche, are the arms of Brackley.
The memorial is surrounded by a recent (c2006) low wall. Either side of iron gates, plaques record the 15 names of those lost in the Second World War. On the wall coping to the side of the gates is inscribed the name of a serviceman killed in Afghanistan in 2009.
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, 17 January 2017.
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 02/02/2015 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/15004
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, Flickr stream of archive photographs, accessed 05/12/2014 from https://www.flickr.com/photos/northampton_museum/7948970810/
War Memorials Trust. Grants Showcase (Brackley), accessed 24/02/2015 from http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=1122
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/108851
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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