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Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial
Brighton War Memorial

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A large memorial pool with a fountain in the centre. At one end of the pool is a colonnade of four-sided stone columns in a stepped U-shape. At the centre is a semi-enclosed temple formed by a tall rectangular panel of stone filling the space between two columns and a roof surmounted by a small stone dome. The theatres of the First World War are carved in the stone panel facing the pond and on the inside of the temple space there is a metal inscription plaque and a stone altar table.

The upper part of the dedicatory panel has a wreath and festoon of laurels. Four smaller panels on the frieze contain the arms of the chief county towns.
Title

Brighton War Memorial

Medium

Portland stone & bronze

Accession number

BN2_LS_S039

Work type

War memorial

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Unveiling date

7th October 1922

Listing date

26/08/99

Access

at all times

Inscription description

back of the central altar, facing north, raised letters: WE CHEERED YOU FORTH NOBLE AND KIND AND BRAVE / UNDER YOUR COUNTRYS TRIUMPHING FLAG YOU FELL / IT FLOATS TRUE HEARTS OVER EACH QUIET GRAVE / BRAVE AND NOBLE AND KIND HAIL AND FAREWELL; above the columns, around the top of the south face, carved letters: A GOOD LIFE HATH / ITS NUMBER OF DAYS / BUT A GOOD NAME SHALL / CONTINUE FOR EVER; bronze plaque, back of the central altar, facing north: THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED / TO THE / SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN / OF BRIGHTON / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN / THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914–1918 / THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939–1945 / AND SUBSEQUENT CAMPAIGNS / THEIR NAMES ARE RECORDED / IN THE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE / IN THE / PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Located at

Steine Gardens, Brighton

BN2 1RE

Set facing south on Old Steine.