Bridgtown War Memorial

A First World War memorial, erected c1920, with Second World War additions.

MATERIALS: of marble.

PLAN: it is square on plan.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands in a small enclosure at the junction between North Street and Longford Road and faces south-east. It takes the form of an obelisk standing upon a single-step base. The base supports a chamfered plinth on which stands a tapered pedestal. An obelisk rises from the pedestal and tapers in square section to a pyramidal top. A decorative band incised with a Greek fret motif runs round the shaft just below its mid point. To the pedestal's south-east face there is an oval-shaped relief of a dead soldier wearing a helmet and the inscription ‘OUR / GLORIOUS DEAD / 1914 1918’ . The south-west, south-east and north-west faces of the obelisk's shaft are inscribed with the names of the 40 men of the parish who died during this conflict. The north-east and south-west faces of the pedestal both bear the inscription ‘1939 - 45 WAR’ with the names of the fallen beneath.

The war memorial stands within an irregular-shaped enclosure of which the rear is formed by the early-C20, brick boundary wall to Bridgtown Primary School whilst the front is enclosed by late-C20 railings. These features are excluded from the listing.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 19 January 2017.