Mary Stanford Memorial
Mary Stanford Memorial
Mary Stanford Memorial
Mary Stanford Memorial
Mary Stanford Memorial
Mary Stanford Memorial
Mary Stanford Memorial
Mary Stanford Memorial
Mary Stanford Memorial
Mary Stanford Memorial
Mary Stanford Memorial

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A tall cruciform arched monument set on a three-stepped base at the head of a large collective grave that holds the remains of the lifeboat crew. A sculpture of a standing lifeboatman in his sou'wester and holding a rope is set on a plinth immediately to the front of the cruciform arch. On the plinth below him is an inscribed plaque and above his head an inscription is carved into the stone. Plaques to each of the lost crewmen are set into the base around a central gravelled area.
Title

Mary Stanford Memorial

Date

1931

Medium

stone, slate & metal plaque

Measurements

H 350 x W 125 x D 45 cm

Accession number

TN31_LS_S007

Work type

Monument

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

19th November 1931

Access

at all times

Inscription description

around the top of the figure of the lifeboatman, carved into the stone, convexed: WE HAVE DONE THAT WHICH WAS OUR DUTY TO DO; inscribed plaque on front of plinth: TO THE MEMORY / OF THE SEVENTEEN / BRAVE MEN, / THE CREW OF THE / MARY STANFORD LIFEBOAT, / WHO PERISHED IN / A HEAVY GALE WHILE GALLANTLY RESPONDING / TO THE CALL FOR HELP / FROM THE / S.S. ALICE OF RIGA / ON THE MORNING OF / THE 15th NOVEMBER 1928.

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Located at

Church of the Holy Spirit, Harbour Road, Rye Harbour

TN31 7TL

At the far side of the churchyard of the Church of the Holy Spirit.