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Reference WMO/112056

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Christ Church (demolished)

Lancaster Gate

Bayswater

London

W2

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Tall column topped by a stone representation of a lantern with elaborate gold calvary cross at its top. Whole rests on square plinth with raised wreath design on its face.The memorial stands on a low square stone base in a paved area surrounded by roads. GV II War Memorial. 1919-21 by Sir Walter Tapper. Portland stone. A tall octagonal shaft on a square pedestal base with a canopied head, surmounted with a gilt crucifix by Bainbridge Reynolds. On the pedestal, set within auricular cartouches, are the arms of England and France, the sacred monogram and the dates of the First World War. The canopied head contains statues of St George, St Louis, and the 'warrior saints' of Christendom: SS Maurice, Longinus, Victor, Adrian, Florian and Eustace. HISTORY: this war memorial was dedicated by the Bishop of Kensington at Easter 1921. Christchurch, Lancaster Gate (1854-55 by F & H Francis; now partly demolished) set up a war memorial committee in July 1918. £921 was spent on realising Tapper's design, the masonry of which was executed by Laurence Turner. Tapper (1861-1945) was a leading late Gothic Revival architect, responsible for the nearby Church of the Annunciation at Marble Arch. This is an unusual form for a war memorial, which possesses elegance and quality of execution. It was badly damaged in the 1987 Great Storm: following a considerable programme of restoration it was reconstructed on a slightly different site to the south of its original position and rededicated on Armistice Day 2002. c Historic England Listing entry
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AUGUST 14TH 1914 NOVEMBER 11TH 1918

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