Stanway War Memorial
Stanway War Memorial
Stanway War Memorial
Stanway War Memorial
Stanway War Memorial
Stanway War Memorial

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A collaboration between sculptor Alexander Fisher, Sir Philip Sidney Stott, and Eric Gill. Fisher’s bronze Saint George is an accomplished and detailed depiction of a vigorous, eternal youth, vanquishing a falling dragon, and Gill’s inscriptions demonstrate the finest of lettering. It features a bronze Saint George and dragon group, merging well with a complimentary column and plinth with fine inscriptions, on a base designed to represent the Tudor rose supporting the whole, and featuring a shell symbolic of a pilgrim’s badge, which was intended to draw visitors to the memorial to remember. The scallop was also the badge of the Tracy family who built Stanway House, and is sculpted onto buildings and walls around the house.
Title

Stanway War Memorial

Date

1920

Medium

local stone & bronze

Accession number

GL54_JC_S044

Acquisition method

commissioned by the Wemyss family and a committee of parishioners

Work type

War memorial

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

30th October 1920

Listing date

07/09/87

Access

at all times

Inscription description

on the right side of the square-section collar near the top of the column: FRANCE.; on the reverse of the square-section collar near the top of the column: EGYPT AND / GALLIPOLI.; front face of plinth: MEN OF STANWAY / 1914 - 1918 / FOR A TOMB / THEY HAVE AN ALTAR / FOR LAMENTATION / MEMORY / AND FOR PITY / PRAISE (from the Greek poet Simonides).; right side of plinth: (six names) and the left side: (five names).; reverse of plinth: FOR YOUR / TO-MORROW / WE GAVE / OUR TO-DAY

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Located at

B4077, Stanway

GL54 5PQ

Located at the junction of the B4077 and southernmost end of the Stanton Road.