Bromhead Memorial

The Bromhead Memorial is a 20th-century memorial constructed from Portland stone with timber lintels, situated at the Star and Garter Home for ex-servicemen. It takes the form of a triptych set upon a shaped stone base of three shallow steps, enclosed by buttress walls that extend to the front. The main panels stand between stone piers topped with moulded cushion capitals, with parallel rows of timber lintels extending beyond the piers at each end. The central panel features a scrolled head and a central finial shaped like a lighted torch. It is inscribed with a dedication to patients who died at the Home and who are not otherwise commemorated, with their names inscribed on the memorial itself and in a separate book within the Home. The rear wall commemorates 205 ex-servicemen. The panels are inscribed with a roll of honour, presented chronologically from 1928 through to 1958, continuing onto the reverse of the memorial covering the years 1970-1977. A lower spine wall, set forward from the rear wall and perpendicular to it, has chamfered piers at the angles and an oversailing chamfered parapet, with inscriptions on both faces commemorating 51 ex-servicemen each, covering the years 1961-66 to the left and 1966-70 to the right. A seated lion acts as a sentinel at the front of the memorial. A step to the front of the memorial is inscribed with a dedication to Lt Col AC Bromhead CBE JP, Chairman of the House Committee of Governors from 1915-1956. Commemorative slabs in front of the memorial are dedicated to Lt Col Alfred Claude Bromhead CBE JP, who died in 1963, and his wife, Margaret Eileen Bromhead, a former matron and governor of the Home, who died in 1978.