sps1955's photos with the keyword: War memorial

The wrought-iron war memorial screen and gates of 1926, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, seen through the entrance arch of the Tavistock Square front , with the west front of Lutyens' building , originally designed as the headquarters of the British Theosophical Society from 1911, but completed for the BMA, 1923-5, beyond. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1378968 .

According to the English Heritage listing , this wing of the school was built c.1920, but a more detailed history of the school says that the wing was added in 1911 (a date confirmed by www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66716 ), with the clock added as a war memorial in 1919. The inclusion of the "1919" date, marking the year of the Versailles Treaty (rather than 1918, the year of the armistice), is interesting.

Erected in 1921, according to www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/CambridgeGasCompany... , which gives details of the men commemorated. A ball and cross have been lost from the top since the photograph on that page was taken in 2010. The design of the upper parts may perhaps have been inspired by Hobson's Conduit , although the top of the memorial is octagonal whereas the conduit head is hexagonal.

Right-hand image from the middle tier of the central N. aisle window. Conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes.

Left-hand image from the bottom tier of the central N. aisle window. Conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes. The biblical quotation below this panel, from Isaiah, XL, 1, was also used at the opening of Handel's Messiah : "Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God; speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned". Like the next panel , this panel appears to be a preparation for the third window with its theme of peace.

Left-hand image from the middle tier of the central N. aisle window. Conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes. The main image appears to show an irrigation scheme with, above, a YMCA hut - according to its website , the YMCA provided huts during World War I to give soldiers food and a place to rest on the front line. Whereas the first window largely dwells on violent and militaristic aspects of the war, the second seems more positive (in Christian terms) and dwells on attempts to relieve suffering or at least to provide Christian solace, in preparation for the third window with its theme of peace.

Right-hand image from the bottom tier of the central N. aisle window. Conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes. This final image of the central window prepares the way for the third window with its theme of peace.

Plaque beneath the westernmost N. aisle window. The glass was conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes.

Left-hand image from the bottom tier of the easternmost N. aisle window (the "Peace Window"). . Conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes.

Right-hand image from the bottom tier of the easternmost N. aisle window (the "Peace Window"). Conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes.

The right-hand image in the top tier of the westernmost N. aisle window. Conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes.

The left-hand image in the middle tier of the westernmost N. aisle window. Conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes.

Image from the westernmost N. aisle window. Conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes.

The right-hand image in the bottom tier of the westernmost N. aisle window. Conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes.

The left-hand image in the bottom tier of the westernmost N. aisle window. Conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes.

1921, to a design by Sir Edwin Lutyens. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1228742 . Very similar to his design for Rochdale: www.flickr.com/photos/watchman/1224664494/ .

Detail, cropped from a wider view. 1921, to a design by Sir Edwin Lutyens. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1228742 .