Society of the Sacred Heart War Memorial

War Memorial, 1918, moved in 1972.

MATERIALS: constructed from Portland stone and concrete, with white marble plaques and tablets, and a grey marble and polished granite shrine with a bronze crucifix.

PLAN: the memorial is attached to the inside (W) of the boundary wall to Digby Stuart College, just to the S of the main gates. It is approximately 11m long, 2m high and 40cm deep.

DESCRIPTION: the monument consists of a central shrine with walls lined with commemorative plaques to either side. The shrine has a base of polished pink granite bearing the main inscription, flanked by two Portland stone tablets with inscriptions noting the names of those lost in the Second World War and the Korean War. Above is a stone shelf, and a recessed grey marble panel with a pointed top, with a central bronze crucifix, and six plaques with incised inscriptions commemorating members of the clergy lost in the First World War. Pilasters to either side bear the inscriptions ‘ARMAGH / ROEHAMPTON’ and ‘ST CHARLES’S / STUDENTS / ST CHARLES’S’, and have further inscribed tablets. To either side are the plaque-lined walls: each has six rows of fourteen. The walls terminate in pilasters with individual plaques and tablets.

The central shrine has the chi-rho with alpha and omega symbol, followed by the inscription: ‘TO THOSE THEY HAVE LOST / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919 / THE NUNS AND CHILDREN OF THE SACRED HEART / AND THEIR FAMILIES / HAVE ERECTED THIS SHRINE / IN LOVING MEMORY / AND SUPPLIANT PRAYER / RIP / “THEIR HOPE IS FULL OF IMMORTALITY” / WISD III, IV / 1939-1945’.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 27 February 2018.