- Type of Memorial
- Composite
- WMR Reference Number
- 3373
- Description
- Large bronze abstract relief, wall mounted, depicting figure (St George or St Michael) riding horse and slaying dragon. Wall-mounted tablet bears inscription in gilt lettering.
- Inscription
- THIS PLACE IN THE RESTORED CHURCH/ OF ST MARY-LE-BOW IS SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE NORWEGIANS WHO DIED/ IN THE RESISTANCE TO THE TYRANNY OF/ NAZISM IN THE YEARS 1940-45/ THE BRONZE RELIEF BY RAGNHILD BUTENSCHON,/ WAS GIVEN BY THE PEOPLE OF NORWAY FOR WHOM THE/ SOUND OF BOW BELLS BROADCAST THROUGHOUT EUROPE/ WAS A SYMBOL OF HOPE DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION. / THE SCULPTURE WAS UNVEILED BY HIS MAJESTY/ KING OLAV V OF NORWAY AND DEDICATED BY THE/ LORD BISHOP OF LONDON ON MARCH 25TH 1966/ THERE WAS A WAR IN HEAVEN: MICHAEL AND HIS ANGEL FOUGHT AGAINST/ THE DRAGON: AND THE DRAGON FOUGHT AND HIS ANGELS, AND PREVAILED/ NOT: NEITHER WAS THEIR PLACE FOUND ANY MORE IN HEAVEN. AND THE/ GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT, THAT OLD SERPENT, CALLED THE DEVIL,/ AND SATAN, WHICH DECEIVETH THE WHOLE WORLD: HE WAS CAST OUT/ IN TO THE EARTH, AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH HIM. AND I/ HEARD A LOUD VOICE SAYING IN HEAVEN, NOW IS COME SALVATION,/ AND STRENGTH AND THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD, AND THE POWER OF/ HIS CHRIST: FOR THE ACCUSER OF OUR BRETHREN IS CAST DOWN, WHICH/ ACCUSED THEM BEFORE OUR GOD DAY AND NIGHT. AND THEY OVER-/ CAME HIM BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, AND BY THE WORD OF THEIR/ TESTIMONY THEY LOVED NOT THEIR LIVES UNTO THE DEATH/ REVELATIONS CHAPTER 12/ VERSES 7- 11