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A standing allegorical figure placed in relative isolation in the Earlham Road cemetery in a well-preserved lawn, surrounded by trees and now filled with neat lines of the headstones of Norfolk men killed during the First and Second World Wars. The statue is raised high on a low square plinth, which rises from chamfered sides framing the central pedestal with the now illegible names of the soldiers. This in turn is set on a larger version of the upper plinth, surrounded by four stone bollards connected by iron railings each on two low twisted iron columns. The helmet is crowned with laurel capped with a plume to recall the helmets of guardsmen and her hair falls over the top of her cuirass. This is decorated with a rose on her left and thistle on the right.
Title
Armed Science
Date
1878
Medium
terracotta & Portland stone
Measurements
H 200 x W (?) x D (?) cm
Accession number
NR2_RHT_S284
Acquisition method
paid for by public subscription
Work type
War memorial
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
17th October 1878
Access
at all times
Signature/marks description
signed on base of sculpture: J. BELL SC; DOULTON & CO On base of plinth: F. S. Want and sons, 117 Dereham Road, Fecit
Inscription description
on plinth at top; IN MEMORY OF THE BRAVE; DEATH IS SWALLOWED IN VICTORY; at bottom of pedestal: THANKS BE TO GOD WHICH GIVETH US VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.; on east pedestal top: WAR A GOOD WARFARE Rear pedestal top GOD IS LOVE; west pedestal: FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT TAKE UNTO YOU THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD; on bottom plinth: THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION IN MEMORY OF SOLDIERS WHO WERE STATIONED AT NORWICH AS A TOKEN OF REGARD AND RESPECT OF THE COUNTRY OCTOBER 1878 C.W.BOILEAU C.F BUXTON E.K.HARVEY H.P. LESTRANGE D.STEWARD F.H.GURNEY J. J. WINTERS COMMITTEE.; names (now legible after restoration) are carved on all the plaques, beginning with that to the south, the main viewpoint. This records soldiers who had died at the time of the commission, and the series continues anti-clockwise to the east