Brunner Mond Middlewich War Memorial

First World War memorial of 1921 with Second World War additions, by Darcy Braddell for Brunner Mond.

MATERIALS: Portland stone, bronze.

PLAN: a rectangular base with short approach path and low boundary wall along the front of the enclosure.

DESCRIPTION: standing in a gravelled memorial garden at the back of the pavement adjacent to a former sports club, now a community church, and facing south.

The memorial comprises an obelisk 8 feet high standing on a wide, rectangular two-stepped base, with a flagged path from the back of the pavement, where there is a low wall with convex top.

The obelisk tapers on all four sides and has three carved channels near the base and a broad cornice near the top. The four corners are indented, with pendant bronze garlands in the angles below the cornice. The channels and cornice continue around the obelisk and the inset angles continue above the cornice at the front, but not the rear. A bronze laurel wreath is fixed to the front face above the cornice. Below the cornice is the incised inscription, with partial black infilling:

TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY/ OF THE MEN FROM THESE/ WORKS WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 TO 1919

Below this are the names of the sixteen Fallen, in alphabetical order by surname, followed by their unit but with no ranks. The names are in capital letters, units in lower case or initials, and the inscription is continuous rather than tabulated. The lettering is fluid and expressive. Below the three channels is the added inscription, in the same lettering:

WORLD WAR 1939 TO 1945

followed by the two names of the Fallen of that war.