La Délivrance is a Grade II* listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. Statue.
La Délivrance
- WRENN ID
- first-beam-grove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1983
- Type
- Statue
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
War statue, designed in 1914-1918 by Émile Guillaume, donated to Finchley Urban District Council by Viscount Rothermere, and erected 1927.
MATERIALS: the statue is cast in bronze and stands on a pink polished granite pedestal.
DESCRIPTION: the figure is a female nude with upward stretched arms with a sword in her right hand. She stands on tiptoes upon a hemisphere which is mounted on a faceted drum pedestal and a square base. The hilt of the figure's sword and the front of the base of the statue are inscribed with the title of the piece. An information panel recounts: ‘LA DELIVERANCE / THIS STATUE BY EMILE GUILLAUME SYMBOLIZES / THE EMOTION INSPIRED AMONG THE ALLIED NATIONS / WHEN THE ARMIES OF BRITAIN AND FRANCE / DEFEATED THE INVADING GERMAN ARMIES / AT THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE SEPTEMBER 1914 / PRESENTED BY VISCOUNT ROTHERMERE’.
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, 20 July 2017.
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