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War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial
War Memorial

Image credit: Lawrence Suss / Art UK

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A granite memorial with stepped base, surmounted by a bronze winged 'Victory' holding a laurel wreath in the left hand and a raised inverted sword in the right. There are bronze plaques to north and south, decorated at the top with scrolled leaf designs and wreaths, and at the bottom, fish motifs. As there were more than a thousand names of the Fallen from Eastbourne, it was decided to erect oak panels in the Town Hall on which they would be carved rather than the original proposal to carve the names on the war memorial. The oak panels were produced by Messrs. G. Bainbridge & Son. Names and details were collected by Rev. H. Plume, M.A., and placed in a bound volume entitled ‘Town Hall Register of the Fallen’.
Title

War Memorial

Date

1920

Medium

bronze & granite

Measurements

H 183 x W (?) x D (?) cm;
Plinth: H 305 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

BN21_LS_S001

Acquisition method

commissioned by Mr Alderman O'Brien Harding, J.P., Mayor of Eastbourne, 1919

Work type

War memorial

Owner

Eastbourne Borough Council

Custodian

Eastbourne Borough Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Unveiling date

10th November 1920

Listing date

10/01/02

Access

at all times

Inscription description

bronze plaque on north face, raised letters inside wreath: WORLD / WAR / II; underneath wreath on same plaque, raised letters: TO / THOSE WHO DIED / 1939-1945 / WE / WILL / REMEMBER / THEM; bronze plaque, south face, raised letters: THE TRIBUTE OF / EASTBOURNE / TO HER GALLANT / SONS AND DAUGHTERS / WHO WERE FAITHFUL / UNTO DEATH / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1918 / THEIR NAMES / ARE RECORDED / ON OAK TABLETS / IN THE TOWN HALL

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Located at

South Street, Eastbourne

BN21 3LD

Set on the centre of the roundabout at the junction of Devonshire Place and Trinity Trees.