Public Monument and Sculpture Association National Recording Project

BRAMHALL WAR MEMORIAL Photograph

Region ID

MR

Work ID

335

Manual Reference

MR/STO10

Type

War Memorial, World War I

Title

BRAMHALL WAR MEMORIAL

Date of design

Year of unveiling

1921

Unveiling details

18 December 1921

Road

Manor Road

Precise Location

South side

A to Z Ref

OS Ref

Postcode

Work is

Extant

Listing Status

II

Duty of Care

Commissioned by

War Memorial Committee

Notes

War memorial. Sandstone and granite shaft with bronze plaques and figures. Tapering square shaft on inscribed base on granite plinth. Shaft surmounted by a cross and has a cast battle-clad figure towards the top on each side.

Unveiled 18 December 1921 by Lt-General Beauvoir de Lisle and dedicated by the Rev John Jones, vicar of Bramhall. Omit in general text but note in the Stockport Introduction.

Men of Bramhall who fell in World War One.

circa

raw year

1921

Condition

Don't know

At risk

Not at risk

Inscriptions

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD AS WE ARE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD, AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN.

Signatures

Elements

Element Details

Part of work

Material

Dimensions

Figures

Bronze

Shaft

Sandstone

Plinth

Granite

Assessment of Condition

Surface Character: nothing recorded

Structural Condition: nothing recorded

Vandalism: nothing recorded