Sandham Memorial Chapel

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Reference WMO/141766

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Sandham Memorial Chapel

Harts Lane

Burghclere

Newbury

RG20 9JT

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Chapel/church
Materials:
  • Glass Glass
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Unknown
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Memorial chapel and gardens with paintings by Stanley Spencer. Property belongs to National Trust. The chapel was commissioned by Mr & Mrs J.L. Behrend in memory of Mrs Behrend's brother, Harry Willoughby Sandham, who served in Macedonia/Salonikia (1915-19) and died in March 1920 as a result of malarial complications. The chapel was built for him and others like him who were not then recognised as war dead and whose names were not recorded on official war memorials. The architect of the chapel, originally known as the Oratory of All Souls, was Lionel Pearson. It was consecrated in 1927. It is believed to be the only property in UK marking the Macedonia/Salonika campaign. Stanley Spencer served in Beaufort Hospital, Bristol and then Macedonia/Salonika in the Royal Army Medical Corp and latterly 7th Battalion of Royal Berkshires as a medical orderly and then infantryman. The paintings in the chapel depicts scenes of hospitals, war and military life. The 16 huge canvases and a number of smaller paintings are considered by many to be Spencer's finest work.
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The Chapel and Almshouses were built in 1926/ by Mr and Mrs J L Behrend, Burghclere,/ and given with an endowment to the national Trust in 1947./ The paintings are by the late Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA for/ which he had made designs in 1919 shortly before being demobilised./ The Chapel was built to enable him to carry them out./ This he did in the space of 6 years entirely unaided.

Lt Henry (Harry) Willoughby Sandham

Grade I (England)

1339741

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