Mercantile Marine Memorial |
| Hob Uid: 1375500 | |
Location :
Greater London Authority
Tower Hamlets
Non Civil Parish
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| Grid Ref : TQ3350080710 |
| Summary : War memorial erected in 1926-8 to designs by Lutyens to commemorate the dead from the Mercantile Marine and fishing fleets of the First World War "who have no grave but the sea"; the monument was extended by Edward Maufe in 1955, to commemorate the merchant seamen of the Second World War. An open tunnel-vaulted three-bay structure, 64ft (19 1/2m) long. The classical style structure has unfluted Doric columns and the vault and stepped attic block are similar to memorials on the Continent that Lutyens designed. The names of the dead are recorded on bronze plaques treated like rusticated walling. |
More information : Indexed by the Imperial War Museum National Inventory of War Memorials as the Merchant Navy Memorial. (2)
Tower Hill Memorial: Second World War extension designed by Sir Edward Maufe, with sculpture by Charles Wheeler. In total almost 36,000 names are inscribed upon the monument: nearly 12,000 for the First World War and nearly 24,000 for the Second. (3)
Maufe's extension opened in 1955 by Queen Elizabeth II. (4) |