Memorial

Burgess Hill

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Current Location

Within a small memorial garden, Memorial Garden, junction of Church Walk & Crescent Road, Burgess Hill, Mid Sussex, West Sussex, RH15 9BN, England

TQ 31256 19167

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Type of Memorial: Allegory (eg: Victory)
WMR Reference Number: 16651
Description: FIGURE OF ST GEORGE, ARMOURED BUT BARE HEADED WITH LANCE AND SHIELD, STANDING OVER THE BODY OF A SLAIN DRAGON. STANDS ON A CIRCULAR PILAR AND OCTAGONAL PLINTH WITH THREE STEPPED BASE. GRANITE SLAB OFSET TO ONE SIDE BEARS THE SECOND WORLD WAR NAMES AND INSCRIPTION.
Inscription: THIS MONUMENT IS SET UP BY THE/ INHABITANTS OF BURGESS HILL TO/ COMMEMORATE THEIR GRATITUDE/ TO ALL THOSE WHO SERVED THEIR/ KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT/ WAR 1914 - 1918 AND ESPECIALLY TO/ THE HONOURED MEMORY OF THOSE/ WHOSE NAMES ARE HERE RECORDED/ WHO WENT FORTH FROM THIS/ PLACE AND RETURNED NOT AGAIN/ REDEDICATED IN 1972 TO ALL THOSE/ WHO GIVE THEIR LIVES THROUGHOUT THE/ YEARS THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN PEACE/ (SEPARATE TABLET) THEY MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE/ 1939 - 1945 WAR AND LATER CONFLICTS/ (NAMES)

Maker(s): Norman and Burt, Builder
MR WILLIAM D GOUGH, Sculptor
MR WALTER ERNEST TOWER, Architect
Sponsor Type: public
Maintenance History: 2016-War Memorials Trust grant of £410 for a condition survey; 2017-War Memorials Trust grant of £12,730 for restoration: Steam cleaned, loose and failing mortar raked out of construction joints which were then repointed with lime mortar. The bronze plaques were then steam cleaned and protective microcrystalline applied. Ferrous screws removed and replaced with non-ferrous fixings while missing rosette screw-heads were re-instated. The bronze sculpture of St George was removed from site for conservation works-corroded iron fixings removed and replaced with nom-ferrous fixings, bronze steam cleaned. The oak gates to the garden were badly rotted, and had to be replaced to an exact duplicate of the original. The boundary wall and gate piers were also repaired and repointed using lime mortar