Brunner Mond Lostock Gralam (Northwich) War Memorial

The Brunner Mond Lostock Gralam War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, with additions for the Second World War, designed by Darcy Braddell for Brunner Mond. It is made of Portland stone and bronze.

The memorial features a rectangular paved area enclosed on three sides by 6-foot high ashlar walls, with low quadrant walls attached to the western corner piers. At the center stands a 10-foot high engaged obelisk that tapers on all three sides and has three carved channels near the base. The top of the obelisk is corniced and surmounted by a stone Latin cross. The front corners are indented, adorned with pendant bronze garlands below the cornice. A bronze laurel wreath is attached to the front face, beneath which is an incised inscription with partial black infilling that reads:

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

AND IN THE/ WORLD WAR/ 1939 1945

The rear and side walls feature cavetto-moulded copings with foliate carvings on the overhang, which extend around the caps of the tapering corner piers that have rusticated joints. The quadrant walls have moulded copings and tapering terminal piers. Low stone slabs serve as benches between the corner piers and the rear wall. Above these benches, the return walls have bronze plaques, one on each wall, listing the names of the four Fallen of the Second World War, along with the incised dates of that war. At the outer edges of the rear wall are carvings of paired flaming torches with a laurel wreath. Between these and the obelisk, there are bronze plaques on each side listing the names of 85 Fallen from the First World War, arranged alphabetically by surname and including their units but not ranks. These plaques are framed by carved rolls of bound laurel leaves.

The rectangular area is paved with artificial stone, while the strip between the quadrant walls is laid with concrete flags.