Great Brington War Memorial

First World War memorial cenotaph, unveiled in 1921 by the 6th Earl Spencer as Lord Lieutenant of Northampton. It was designed by Colonel John Brown and constructed by Messrs JG Pullen and Sons of Northampton.

MATERIALS: of Weldon stone with a Derbyshire gritstone base.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial stands in a prominent roadside position within a grassed and railed enclosure on the south-east side of Main Street, Great Brington. A double-leaf gate at the centre of its north-east side gives access to the enclosure.

Its design, which is based on Edwin Lutyens’s Whitehall cenotaph, consists of a 4.9m high memorial with a chest tomb atop a rectangular pylon, the whole standing on a three-stepped base. The north-west face of the chest tomb bears a bronze wreath in relief while a bronze dedication plaque on the pylon below reads: 1914-1919 / TO THE UNDYING MEMORY OF THE TRUE AND / FAITHFUL MEN WHO WENT FORTH FROM THIS / PARISH FOR GOD AND FOR LIBERTY AND / WHO DID NOT RETURN / [Names] / LORD, GIVE THEM REST AND ETERNAL LIFE.