Memorial To Margaret Mcmillan At Rachel Mcmillan Nursery School is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1995. Memorial. 1 related planning application.
Memorial To Margaret Mcmillan At Rachel Mcmillan Nursery School
- WRENN ID
- stranded-facade-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1995
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
786/26/10035 MCMILLAN STREET 13-FEB-95 (East side) MEMORIAL TO MARGARET MCMILLAN AT RACHEL MCMILLAN NURSERY SCHOOL
GV II
Memorial to Margaret McMillan (1860-1931), erected May-November 1932 to the designs of Herbert Baker. Sculptor unknown. Stone on brick plinth, a circular column inscribed 'IN MEMORIAM MARGARET McMILLAN, PALM SUNDAY 1931, MISERIS SUCCURRERE DISCO' ('I learn to succour the poor', the McMillan clan motto) with a roll moulding at the top and decorated base carved with figures, animals and plants in bas relief. Iron lantern on top. McMillan was a pioneer in nursery education, whose ideas on health, fresh air and imaginative play were first embodied in a building on this site in 1914.
Sources Minutes of the Rachel McMillan School Management Committee, 1932 Herbert Baker, Architecture and Personalities, 1944 District Surveyors Returns held at London Metropolitan Archives.
Listing NGR: TQ3738277675
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