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Stonehouse (Regent Brewers)
Town or City: Plymouth
County: Devon
Country: England
WMT Reference Number: WM358
Value of grant: £200.00
Type of memorial: Non-Freestanding
Type of work: Conservation and repair
Grant scheme: Small Grants Scheme
Year: 2001
UKNIWM reference number: 46026
The memorial commemorating the men of Plymouth Breweries who fell in World War I is a limestone plaque upon a stone supportive panel. The memorial is 75cm wide and 1100cm high. The plaque has lettering in relief and the moulded support panel bears dates and a laurel crown in relief at the top. The memorial used to be on an angled plinth outside the Brewers Tap pub, on the junction of Durnford and Edgcumbe Streets, but has been moved to the other side of the road, the north end of Durnford Street, on a roundabout, and set into a boundary wall, as this is a more prominent location.
In June 2001 War Memorials Trust gave £200 towards work to clean the memorial, replace the lost indented lettering on the plaque, re-working it where necessary, to repair the lettering on the supportive panel and to re- decorate the supportive panel in its original colours.
The inscription at the top of the plaque reads
1914 – 1919
In memory of the following
employees of this company
who during the Great War
gave their lives in the
service of their country
After the work was finished the memorial was rededicated at a service on Thursday 27th March 2003.
Further information
War Memorials Trust reference WM358
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 46026
If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org
