Brough War Memorial, East Riding of Yorkshire

Heritage listing

Details War memorial commemorating the First World War and the Second World War. Erected around 1920 to a design by HH Martyn and Co, also manufactured by the company. MATERIALS: limestone with bronze plaques. PLAN: cross on a square base with chamfered corners standing on three square steps. Wall behind with angled outer corners flanking the cross. DESCRIPTION: the war memorial stands on the east corner of the junction between Skillings Lane and Welton Road. It takes the form of a tall cross with a tapering octagonal shaft with a moulded base. At the head of the cross is a relief-carved laurel wreath and a longsword is carved with the blade down the shaft. The cross is raised on a high, square base with chamfered corners and a chamfered plinth set on a wider, shallower base also with chamfered corners. It stands on three square steps. On the front face of the high, square base is the inscription THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945 / THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE. Behind the cross is a low flanking wall with angled outer corners. It is built of squared limestone blocks with chamfered plinth and coping stones. Set into the left angled wall is a rectangular bronze plaque with a moulded frame and relief capital lettering. It records the names of eighteen men preceded by their rank and followed by their regiment name under the heading OFFICERS AND MEN FROM ELLOUGHTON AND BROUGH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918. A similar rectangular plaque set into the right angled wall records the rank, name and regiment of twenty-one men. In the centre of the wall is an attached rectangular plaque with inscribed, coloured lettering. It records the names of fifteen men followed by their rank and regiment or military force under the heading IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.