Brighstone War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1468882
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-2020
- List Entry Name:
- Brighstone War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1468882
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-2020
- List Entry Name:
- Brighstone War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Junction of Main Road and New Road, Brighstone, Isle of Wight, PO30 4BB
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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:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brighstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ4289382713
Summary
First World War memorial, unveiled in 1920, with added inscription and names from the Second World War; relocated from within the churchyard to its current location by the late 1970s.
Reasons for Designation
Brightone War Memorial, Isle of Wight 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.
Group value:
* with the nearby Church of St Mary (Grade I).
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 which meant that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss. One such memorial was raised at Brighstone and it is a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local community, who lost their lives in the First World War.
Brighstone War Memorial was unveiled in 1920 by the Parish Rector. It commemorates 18 servicemen of the community who gave their lives in the First World War. A further inscription and the names of five who died in the Second World War were added following that conflict and inscribed by Wight Stonemasonry Ltd; a sixth name was added at a later date.
An historic photograph dating from the 1920s suggests that the memorial originally stood within the churchyard of the Church of St Mary (Grade I); however, by the late 1970s it had been relocated outside of the boundary wall of the churchyard at the junction of Main Road and New Road.
Details
First World War memorial, unveiled in 1920, with added inscription and names from the Second World War; relocated from within the churchyard to its current location by the late 1970s.
MATERIALS: granite cross with metal lettering.
DESCRIPTION: a Latin cross on a tapered plinth. The bottom of the shaft bears the lettering 1914 -1918 and the face of the plinth reads TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF BRIGHSTONE/ MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE/ GREAT WAR with the names below. The left hand side of the base is inscribed ALSO OF THOSE WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR OF/ 1935 -1945 with names below.
Sources
Websites
Inventory of War Memorials: Brighstone War Memorial, accessed 17 January 2020 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/21722
War Memorials Online: Brighstone War Memorial, accessed 17 January 2020 from http://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/175351
Brighstone War Memorial, accessed 17 January 2020 from www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk/towns/brighstone.htm
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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