Elloughton and Brough War Memorial, Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire

Summary

War memorial commemorating the First World War and the Second World War. Erected around 1920 to a design by HH Martyn and Co, also manufactured by the company.

Description

War memorial commemorating the First World War and the Second World War. Erected around 1920 to a design by HH Martyn and Co, also manufactured by the company.

MATERIALS: limestone with bronze plaques.

PLAN: cross on a square base with chamfered corners standing on three square steps. Wall behind with angled outer corners flanking the cross.

DESCRIPTION: the war memorial stands on the east corner of the junction between Skillings Lane and Welton Road. It takes the form of a tall cross with a tapering octagonal shaft with a moulded base. At the head of the cross is a relief-carved laurel wreath and a longsword is carved with the blade down the shaft. The cross is raised on a high, square base with chamfered corners and a chamfered plinth set on a wider, shallower base also with chamfered corners. It stands on three square steps. On the front face of the high, square base is the inscription THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945 / THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE.

Behind the cross is a low flanking wall with angled outer corners. It is built of squared limestone blocks with chamfered plinth and coping stones. Set into the left angled wall is a rectangular bronze plaque with a moulded frame and relief capital lettering. It records the names of eighteen men preceded by their rank and followed by their regiment name under the heading OFFICERS AND MEN FROM ELLOUGHTON AND BROUGH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918. A similar rectangular plaque set into the right angled wall records the rank, name and regiment of twenty-one men. In the centre of the wall is an attached rectangular plaque with inscribed, coloured lettering. It records the names of fifteen men followed by their rank and regiment or military force under the heading IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945.

The paving in front of the cross, concrete flowerbed kerbs, low timber posts and chains and plant containers are later additions and are excluded from the listing.

History

Elloughton and Brough War Memorial was built to commemorate thirty-nine local men who died in the First World War. The tall stone cross has a carved laurel wreath and a low-relief sword resembling the bronze longsword on the Cross of Sacrifice, the Commonwealth war memorial designed in 1918 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission (later the Commonwealth War Graves Commission).

The stone cross and flanking wall was designed and manufactured by HH Martyn and Company and it was unveiled around 1920. The men were named by rank and regiment on two bronze plaques attached to the flanking wall. A third plaque was added after the Second World War with the names, ranks and regiments of the fifteen men who died.

Reasons for Listing

Elloughton and Brough War Memorial, erected around 1920 to designs by HH Martyn and Co, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Historic interest:

* as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this local community, and the sacrifices it made in the First World War and the Second World War.

Architectural interest:

* a dignified and handsome memorial in the form of a raised limestone cross with a laurel wreath at its head and relief-carved broadsword to the tapering octagonal shaft, flanked by a low angled limestone wall set with memorial plaques naming those who lost their lives.

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