Captain George Blagdon Westcott RN (Battle of Aboukir Bay 1798)

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Reference WMO/275544

Address:

St Paul's Cathedral

Ludgate Hill

London

EC4M 8AD

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Figure sculpture
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Unknown
Conflicts:
  • Revolutionary/Napoleonic (1792-1815)
About the memorial: culpted marble Marble free-standing monument with over life-size figures on an oval podium: a dying man in classical dress being supported by an angel holding aloft a wreath. The dying man is falling to the right on to a coil of rope; he is being held by an angel wearing a long robe and plumed helmet, and holding a laurel wreath in her raised right hand. The oval podium has rectangular extensions at the ends carved with s-striations. The memorial inscription is on a panel on the front, under which are carved figures of a river god, putti, a sphinx, palm trees and, around the sides, three-masted ships-of-war
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ERECTED AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE, / TO THE MEMORY OF / GEORGE BLAGDON WESTCOTT, / CAPTAIN OF THE MAJESTIC; / WHO, AFTER THIRTY-THREE YEARS OF MERITORIOUS SERVICE, / FELL GLORIOUSLY / IN THE VICTORY OBTAINED OVER THE FRENCH FLEET OFF ABOUKIR, / THE FIRST DAY OF AUGUST, IN THE YEAR MDCCXCVIII. / IN THE FORTY-SIXTH YEAR OF HIS AGE

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