Memorial Wall in the grounds of the Old Meeting House Unitarian Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Mansfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 2019. Memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Memorial Wall in the grounds of the Old Meeting House Unitarian Chapel
- WRENN ID
- solemn-frieze-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mansfield
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 2019
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The memorial wall, located in the grounds of the Old Meeting House Unitarian Chapel, was installed in the 1920s and designed by the notable local artist and antiquarian Alan Sorby Buxton (1867-1932). This memorial features bronze plaques that honor members of Mansfield's Unitarian Chapel community who lost their lives in both World Wars.
Constructed of ashlar sandstone, the monument includes bronze plaques set within one bay of a two-bay section of enclosure wall made of coursed squared sandstone, with a panel of brickwork. The memorial has a linear form and is enclosed on three sides, attached to a surviving section of what seems to be an earlier boundary wall, with shallow returns or piers at each end and a central pier.
The memorial displays two bronze plaques, each featuring the names of the Fallen beneath copper wreaths, which have the Omega letter at their center. The plaques are recessed between short pilasters with splayed feet that end at a shallow bracketed shelf. These plaques and paired pilasters are positioned against a lining wall of ashlar sandstone blocks, topped with a plainly-moulded cornice. The pilasters extend above the cornice and are capped with a similarly moulded, U-shaped cornice that is supported by the pilaster heads and the ashlar blocks above the plaques. Each plaque is inscribed with the words, "IN REMEMBRANCE/ 1914-1918/ NAMES/ THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE." Additionally, a small plaque listing the names of those who fell in the Second World War has been added below the right-hand plaque.
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