The Scottish National War Memorial: Exterior and Interior - multiple statues and panels
Created by Charles D'Orville Pilkington Jackson
Date: 1927
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: architecture (building and structural components), sculpture
Object type: commemorative monument, war memorial
Material: metal - bronze, stone
Description:
Exterior - Badges of the Services, Divisional Signs, Royal Arms of Scotland, finials on gables: shields on buttresses of the apse. Interior - bosses in roof of porch; inner and outer faces of arch leading to shrine; Royal Naval Memorial and Flying Services memorial, Royal Marine, Mercantile Marine, Household Cavalry, Indian Army and Yeomanry Memorials. The bronze Trophies of Scottish Arms; all service badges, all lettering in stone and bronze, keystones over the windows, modelling, bronze work and carving in connection with all regimental memorials, statue of Reveille above door, medallion to Earl Haig.
Locations of Works
Located at The Scottish National War Memorial Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh | View on map
1927
Sources
Scottish National War Memorial
October 2004
The Scottish National War Memorial, A Record and Appreciation
1928 (Circa)
Citing this record
'The Scottish National War Memorial: Exterior and Interior - multiple statues and panels', 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/object.php?id=msib6_1222440414, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
