Memorial Wall in the grounds of the Old Meeting House Unitarian Chapel

A memorial wall, set within earlier enclosure walling, installed in the 1920's to the designs of renowned local artist and antiquarian Alan Sorby Buxton (1867-1932). The memorial incorporates commemorative bronze plaques which record the names of members of Mansfield's Unitarian Chapel community who lost their lives in the two World Wars.

MATERIALS The monument is built of ashlar sandstone, with bronze plaques. The ashlar work is set within one bay of a two bay section of enclosure wall, constructed of coursed squared sandstone, and with a panel of brickwork.

PLAN The memorial is linear in form and is enclosed on three sides, and attached to a surviving section of what appears to have been an earlier boundary wall with shallow returns, or piers, at each end and a central pier.

DESCRIPTION Two bronze plaques bearing the names of the Fallen, set below copper wreaths, each with the Omega letter at their centre. Each plaque is recessed between short pilasters with splayed feet which terminate at a shallow bracketed shelf. The plaques and paired pilasters are set against a lining wall of ashlar sandstone blocks which is capped by a plainly-moulded cornice. The pilasters rise above the level of the cornice and are capped by a similarly moulded, u-shaped cornice supported on the pilaster heads and the ashlar blocks above the plaques. Each plaque bears an inscription which reads, IN REMEMBRANCE/ 1914-1918/ NAMES/ THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE. A small plaque recording the names of those who fell in the Second World War has been added below the right-hand plaque.