Brimington Memorial Gates
Memorial Gates, Broom Gardens, Manor Road, Brimington, Derbyshire
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1453565
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Brimington Memorial Gates
- Statutory Address:
- Memorial Gates, Broom Gardens, Manor Road, Brimington, Derbyshire
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1453565
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Brimington Memorial Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- Memorial Gates, Broom Gardens, Manor Road, Brimington, Derbyshire
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
- Statutory Address:
- Memorial Gates, Broom Gardens, Manor Road, Brimington, Derbyshire
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Chesterfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brimington
- National Grid Reference:
- SK4056173231
Summary
First World War memorial gates erected in 1925, with later additions.
Reasons for Designation
Brimington Memorial Gates, erected in 1925, are 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.
Architectural interest:
* as a well-composed and finely detailed memorial of rusticated stone and decorative ironwork, demonstrating a high quality of craftsmanship.
History
The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. This was the result of both the huge impact on communities of the loss of three quarters of a million British lives, and also the official policy of not repatriating the dead: therefore the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss. One such memorial was raised at Brimington as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War.
The memorial gates in Brimington were erected in 1925 to commemorate the 120 local servicemen who died during the First World War. The gates originally formed the entrance to the Brimington Miners Welfare Sports Ground but in 1958 the site was redeveloped for housing by Chesterfield Rural District Council. The gates were rededicated with the names of the 35 fallen from the Second World War added.
Details
First World War memorial gates erected in 1925, with later additions.
MATERIALS: sandstone gate piers with wrought iron gates and bronze plaques.
PLAN: the gates are located at the junction of Broom Gardens and Manor Road.
EXTERIOR: the memorial consists of a central pair of rusticated gate piers, flanked by two shorter piers forming pedestrian access, from which extend low stone walls supporting railings. These form a semicircle and terminate in rusticated piers. All six piers have a deep moulded cornice surmounted by a pyramidal capstone. The central four piers bear bronze plaques inscribed TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ ROLL OF HONOUR/ IN SACRED MEMORY OF/ THOSE GALLANT MEN/ OF THIS VILLAGE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR US/ followed by their names. At the base of two of the plaques is 1939 – 1945. The two central taller piers have carved laurel wreaths above the plaques and semicircular stone projections at the base which may have formerly supported brackets or decorations.
The decorative wrought iron gates are painted green and have scroll and foliate details which are continued in the railings. The main gates have two panels which read 1914 and 1918 in gold lettering.
Sources
Websites
UK Inventory of War Memorials, accessed 2 January 2018 from www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/search
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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