The Brookwood Memorial
THE BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391047
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- The Brookwood Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- THE BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391047
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- The Brookwood Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Woking (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 94844 56560
Details
71/0/10042 The Brookwood Memorial, Brookwood Ceme
23-JUL-04 tery
GV II
War memorial. 1958, probably by Sir Edwin Maufe. Portland stone, slate inscription panels. The memorial comprises an open circular structure. The outer ring, raised up on a dwarf wall with clipped hedge behind, is carried on slender piers with rounded ends, each side of which carries inscription panels. These carry an entablature, behind which is a taller wall pierced with rectangular openings. In the centre is a round grass lawn. Opposite the principal steps is a screen of masonry, carrying an inscription to the 3,500 men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth, 'to whom fortune and war denied a known and honoured grave'.
HISTORY: this memorial to missing servicemen and women was inaugurated following a service attended by HM the Queen on 25 October 1958. It forms one of a sequence of distinguished military memorials at Brookwood from the First and Second World Wars: no other cemetery in Britain has such a collection. The persons commemorated include Violette Szabo GC, the Special Operations Executive agent who was executed at Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1945. Maufe (who was knighted for his services as architect to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in 1954) was architect of the memorial at Runnymede to missing airmen of the RAF, of 1953; his chapel at Brookwood was built in 1947. This memorial is listed for its historic interest; for its architectural quality; and for its important visual role in this outstanding landscape of military commemoration.
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 6 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492735
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 06/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/23775
War Memorials Online, accessed 06/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/157502
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 12-Jun-2026 at 08:11:45.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.