Mells War Memorial
Mells War Memorial is a First World War memorial by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the village of Mells in the Mendip Hills of Somerset, south-western England. Unveiled in 1921, the memorial is one of multiple buildings and structures Lutyen designed in Mells. He was a friend of two prominent local families, the Horners and the Asquiths.
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Mells War Memorial is a First World War memorial by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the village of Mells in the Mendip Hills of Somerset, south-western England. Unveiled in 1921, the memorial is one of multiple buildings and structures Lutyen designed in Mells. He was a friend of two prominent local families, the Horners and the Asquiths, through his collaborations with Gertrude Jekyll on country houses and gardens early in his career. The memorial takes the form of a marble column topped by a sculpture of Saint George slaying a dragon. At the base of the column, the names of the village’s war dead are inscribed on stone panels. It is a grade II* listed building and since 2015 has been part of a national collection of Lutyes’ war memorials. In the same church is a memorial to Raymond Asquith, designed by LutyEN and executed by Eric Gill. Raymond was killed in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
Both men are listed on the village war memorial. By 1916, seventy-four men from Mells had left to fight, and several women, including Lady Horner, were working as nurses in France. By the end of the war, 21 men had been killed and multiple others had been injured. Among the wounded was the curate of St Andrew’s Church, who earned the Military Cross for saving a wounded soldier. The idea for a larger, public memorial originated with the Horner family, who felt that the memorial should be something to be admired and admired and not just remembered. After a public meeting, villagers decided on the memorial, which is now a Grade II listed building. The Cenotaph on Whitehall in London, which became the focus for the national Remembrance Sunday commemorations and the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the somme in France, among many other memorials and cemeteries.
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