Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore

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Reference WMO/226004

Address:

St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Churchyard

London

EC4M 8AD

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Other sculpture
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Revolutionary/Napoleonic (1792-1815)
About the memorial: Sculpture dedicated to Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore who lost his life in Corunna on the 16th January 1809. In the South Transept, a marble free-standing monument with over life-size figures: a general being lowered into a tomb by a semi-naked man and an angel, a naked infant holding a standard behind. In the centre a general in military dress is being lowered into the tomb; to the left a young, well-built man with moustache, naked apart from a drape covering his midriff, kneels on the edge of the tomb supporting the deceased; at the other end an angel kneels and lowers the deceased into the tomb using a length of laurel as a support. Behind to the left a naked child stands on the raised cover of the tomb holding a standard with laurel wreath around the top; behind him is a decorated shield.
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SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR JOHN MOORE, K.B./ WHO WAS BORN AT GLASGOW IN THE YEAR 1761. / HE FOUGHT FOR HIS COUNTRY / IN AMERICA, IN CORSICA, IN THE WEST-INDIES, / IN HOLLAND, EGYPT, AND SPAIN: / AND ON THE 16TH.OF JANUARY, 1809, / WAS SLAIN BY A CANNON-BALL, / AT CORUNNA.

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