Memorial

Mill Hill School, Barnet - WW1 and WW2

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Current Location

Mill Hill School, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, Barnet, Greater London, NW7 1QS, England

TQ 22607 92622

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Type of Memorial: Gate
WMR Reference Number: 53486
Description: A large, Grade II listed, classical arch made from Portland stone. It has square columns at the corners, a pair of Corinthian columns at the front and at the back and a shallow pitched roof with a pediment above both the front and the back elevations. A set of eight steps leads up to the memorial, which is entered through a pair of iron gates with decorative panels. Within the structure is an elaborately moulded, cedar wood ceiling and around the walls are panels incised with gilded letters commemorating the names of former pupils of the school who fell in the two world wars. There are inscriptions along the entablatures of both the front and back of the memorial.
Inscription: Front entablature - Gate of honour Rear entablature - Pro patria servatoribus servati memores DDD REAR WALL: 1914 1919/ (NAMES) SIDE WALL: 1939 1945/ (NAMES)

Maker(s): Stanley Hamp FRIBA, Architect
Percy George Bentham ARBS, Stone Carver
Mr GW Murray, Wood Carver
Maintenance History: In 2001/2 this memorial received a grant of £5,000 from English Heritage. The main works were the removal of the blue copper staining from the stone work, re-gilding of the lettering, cleaning, consolidating and conserving the painted ceiling, including minor touching-in but not re-painting, cleaning, repairing and re-gilding the gates, repairing the copper roof and replacing the chain to match the original.