Bromfield War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details A churchyard First World War memorial of 1921, altered after 1945. MATERIALS & PLAN: limestone, with a cross and ball above a hexagonal shaft with plinth, stepped base and rectangular platform. The memorial faces south-west to the path which leads from the churchyard lych-gate to the north-west door of the church. The pinnacle of the monument has a cross with chamfered and splayed arms above a ball. Below this is a moulded cap to the tapered hexagonal shaft. The plinth has straight sides which bear the following inscription to the south-west face: IN / MEMORY OF THE MEN / OF THIS PARISH WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES TO / SAVE THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918. / AND / 1939 – 1945. Below this the base has three steps. The north-eastern face bears the names of the fallen on the plinth and below this the name of the single fallen servicemen from the Second World War and the Palestine Civil War of 1947 are inscribed on the risers of two of the steps of the base. This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 23 November 2017.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.