Whitehall Recreation Ground War Memorial Gates

A First World War memorial designed by Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel and dating from 1922. Moved in 1987 and altered in 1999 and 2005.

MATERIALS: the gate piers are of Portland stone with wrought iron gates.

DESCRIPTION: the war memorial is a pair of Neo-Classical style gates, with substantial Portland stone gatepiers with wrought iron gates between them.

Each pier is a quadrant section with groups of Ionic pilasters at each end and at the rear corners. The central pilasters are fluted, the remainder are not. These support an entablature of architrave, frieze and a deep projecting cornice. Each pier is surmounted by three carved urns with tall finials. Between the piers are ornate wrought iron gates.

The friezes contain the original inscriptions, that on the left hand pier reading TO THE MEN OF RUGBY WHO, and that on the right reading FELL IN THE WAR 1914-1919. The names are inscribed on the piers themselves.

Following the Second World War, the names of the fallen in that conflict were added to the memorial, and an inscription on the side of the left pier, reading TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE SERVICE OF THE COUNTRY/ 1939-1945.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 February 2018.