Barnt Green War Memorial

A war memorial, set in a brick wall with ashlar dressings, designed by the Bromsgrove Guild c.1920.

MATERIALS & PLAN: limestone carvings set in a red brick wall laid in random bond with an ashlar coping and wrought iron railing to its south side. The monument is rectangular, with the sculptures set in niches on its south side.

DETAILS: the south face has the three sculptures formerly set in the church gable. At the centre is Christ on the cross in high relief, set against a broad stone cross which is flush with the brickwork. To either side are smaller stone niches with hoods formed of projecting tiles. That to the left shelters a sculpture of a soldier in great coat and battle dress and that to the right has a sailor with rifle. The sculptures look downwards and are clearly intended to be viewed from below. To the top of the wall are two stepped, projecting courses of bricks, supported on tiles, the topmost being a soldier course with a concrete coping above. A curved, tiled platform of three steps at ground floor level, is set behind a wrought iron fence. To the western flank are two bronze, rectangular plaques, the upper one of which reads: '1914+ REMEMBER+1918' with names below, and at the bottom of the plaque 'MAY THEY REST IN PEACE'. Below that is another plaque which reads '1939 + 1945' with the names of the fallen from that conflict. Below this a further, small brass plaque that reads 'THIS WAR MEMORIAL / WAS RELOCATED, RESTORED / AND REDEDICATED / AS PART OF THE REFURBISHMENT OF / ST ANDREW'S CHURCH / NOVEMBER 2001'.

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, 18 January 2017.