Where is Stone of Remembrance?

Stone of Remembrance is in Surrey, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode GU24 0JD), in the parish of Pirbright.

How do I get to Stone of Remembrance?

The nearest railway station is Brookwood, about 0.5 km away. Drivers can use postcode GU24 0JD.

Is Stone of Remembrance a protected site?

Yes — Stone of Remembrance is part of the Basingstoke Canal SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Is Stone of Remembrance free to visit?

Yes, Stone of Remembrance is free to enter.

How do I get to Stone of Remembrance?

The nearest railway station is Brookwood, about 0.5 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode GU24 0JD.

Memorials & monuments · South East England

Stone of Remembrance

In or near Pirbright.

Free admission🐾 Dog-friendly

Stone of Remembrance is a memorial in the United Kingdom.

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 15 min–45 min
Nearest railway station: Brookwood · 0.5 km

Free entry
Dog-friendly

Getting there & planning your visit

To visit the Stone of Remembrance, you can take a train to Brookwood station, which is 0.5 km away. The postcode for the memorial is GU24 0JD, and entry is free.

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Stone of Remembrance is a public memorial in Surrey, South-East England, recording local sacrifice and named in the parish register of war and civic monuments. The site is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. It sits within the Surrey Heath parliamentary constituency. The nearest railway station is Brookwood, about 0.5 km away. Postcode area GU24.

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Protected designations

Site of Special Scientific Interest: Basingstoke Canal SSSI

Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.

From the Wikipedia article

The Stone of Remembrance is a standardised design for war memorials that was designed in 1917 by the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens for the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC). It was designed to commemorate the dead of World War I, to be used in IWGC war cemeteries containing 1,000 or more graves, or at memorial sites commemorating more than 1,000 war dead. Hundreds were erected following World War I, and it has since been used in cemeteries containing the Commonwealth dead of World War II as well. It is intended to commemorate those "of all faiths and none", and has been described as one of Lutyens' "most important and powerful works", with a "brooding, sentinel-like presence wherever used".

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Background

Architecture

The initial thoughts for the design were sent by Lutyens in letters and memoranda in May and August 1917 to Fabian Ware, the founder and head of the Imperial War Graves Commission, before and after the period in which Lutyens and other architects visited the wartime cemeteries in France in July 1917 at the request of Ware, to give their initial thoughts on what should be done to commemorate the dead: Part of the design is the three-stepped platform on which each stone rests. Architectural historian Gavin Stamp, in Silent Cities (1977), quotes further from Lutyen's 1917 correspondence with Ware, where Lutyens describes the proposed stone as: In a later work in 2006, Stamp identifies a…

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Coordinates: 51.3012, -0.6419
County: Surrey
District: Guildford
Parish: Pirbright
Postcode: GU24 0JD
Parliamentary constituency: Surrey Heath
Nearest railway station: Brookwood — 0.5 km

Sources

osm: n894036867 (ODbL)
wikipedia: Stone of Remembrance (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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