The Scottish National War Memorial: Multiple Exterior & Interior statues and panels
Modelled by Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams
Date: 1927
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: architecture (building and structural components), sculpture
Object type: commemorative monument, war memorial
Material: wood
Technique: modelled
Description:
Exterior - group at apex of apse, Call of St Andrew; groups of angels on buttresses of apse; figures of Truth and Knowlege. Interior - figure of St Michael in shrine; 4 angels on stone of remembrance; figures for steel casket; bronze panels to the women's services and nursing services in west bay; modelling of memorial to London, Liverpool, South African and Tyneside Scottish in east bay and of pelican in porch.
Locations of Works
Located at The Scottish National War Memorial Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh | View on map
1927
Sources
Scottish National War Memorial
October 2004
p. 29
The Scottish National War Memorial, A Record and Appreciation
1928 (Circa)
Citing this record
'The Scottish National War Memorial: Multiple Exterior & Interior 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_1222443902, accessed 23 May 2022]
