Competition for a Memorial in Rye Churchyard (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1931
Start Date: March 1931
Type: Competition
Description: Memorial to the memory of 17 lifeboat men 'who lost their lives in the disaster of 1928'. A design sent by James Wedgwood was accepted 'subject to satisfactory modifications being made'.
C. L. Hartwell was nominated to represent the RBS as one of three assessors alongside the Ex-Mayor of Rye and a representative of the Public Trustee. The Council of the Royal Society of British Sculptors advised that the initial sum of £350 that was allocated for the commission, would be insufficient for 'anything but a very simple work' ('Annual Report, 1930', 1931, Royal Society of British Sculptors).
Policy:
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Society of British Sculptors
March 1931
Assisted in the organisation of the competition.
Participants
Competitors included James Wedgwood
March 1931
Winner of the commission.
Officers included Charles Leonard Hartwell
March 1931 - March
Served as one of three assessors.
Citing this record
'Competition for a Memorial in Rye Churchyard (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1931', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib4_1271944625, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
