IRISH REGIMENTS CHAPEL

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Reference WMO/162581

Address:

Westminster Cathedral

Westminster

London

SW1P 1DW

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Chapel/church
Materials:
  • Other Other
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Description of the memorial chapel from IWM: 'Chapel is decorated with over 30 different kinds of marble, mainly Irish, including Cork red and Connemara green. On walls are enamel badges of 16 Irish regiments and the Royal Irish Constabulary, each surrounded by a bronze wreath and above a bronze plaque. Floor has a Celtic cross set in marble, dossal behind altar is decorated with mother-of-pearl shamrocks, the altar has snakes engraved on it, the pierced white marble screen between chapel and aisle includes shamrocks and oak leaves of St Brigit. tops of red marble pillars between regimental badges are decorated with snakes, doves and rams' heads; mosaics of Oliver Plunkett, St Patrick and gilt statue of St Patrick Leather-bound Books of Remembrance are kept in green marble cabinet in niche next to altar. There are books for each Irish regiment and a book listing Irishmen who died fighting in non-Irish regiments.'.
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