The Chattri

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Reference WMO/107079

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Patcham Downs

Patcham

Brighton

BN1 8ZB

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Other structure/building
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Indian Armed Forces: Erected on the site where bodies of Hindu and Sikh soldiers were cremated. White Sicilian marble and another, darker stone for the base. The base is square in plan, and stepped down 4 times towards the east; resting on it is an octagonal pavilion, the columns of which are square in plan converting to octagonal half-way up, with bracketed capitals, carrying a dome with the wide eaves and profile of an Indian chattri. c Historic England listing entry. Adjacent to the pavilion is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial tablet unveiled in September 2010. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission decided in 2009 that, although these men did not have graves, they were not 'missing' in the conventional sense and it would therefore be more appropriate to commemorate them on a memorial at the cremation site.
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The base is inscribed, in English and Hindi, 'TO THE MEMORY OF ALL THE INDIAN SOLDIERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR KING-EMPEROR THIS MONUMENT ERECTED IN THE SITE WHERE THE HINDUS AND SIKHS WHO DIED IN HOSPITAL IN BRIGHTON PASSED THROUGH FIRE, IS IN GRATEFUL ADMIRATION AND BROTHERLY AFFECTION DEDICATED.'

Grade II (England)

1379911

No [checked Brighton & Hove City Council 29/3/2023]

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