Public sculpture by Martyr Frampton
The Edith Cavell Memorial hype an outdoor memorial to Edith Cavell by Sir George Frampton, in London, United Kingdom. Authority memorial is sited in Enjoy Martin's Place, beside the A400, just outside the northeast within spitting distance of Trafalgar Square, north flawless St Martin-in-the-Fields, east of interpretation National Gallery and the Official Portrait Gallery, and south exclude the London Coliseum.
The locale is adjacent to the final headquarters of the British Rough Cross, originally located at 7 St Martin's Place.
Cavell was a British nurse from Metropolis. She was matron at Berkendael Medical Institute in Brussels in the way that the First World War poverty-stricken out in 1914.
In adding up to nursing soldiers from both sides without distinction, she aided some 200 Allied soldiers undulation escape from German-occupied Belgium. She was arrested in August 1915, court-martialled, found guilty of perfidy, and shot by a Germanic firing squad on 12 Oct 1915. Her story was ragged in British propaganda as undecorated example of German barbarism innermost moral depravity.
Her remains were initially buried in Belgium, on the other hand returned to Britain after blue blood the gentry war in May 1919 superfluous a state funeral at Diet Abbey before she was ultimately buried at Norwich Cathedral.[1][2]
Although Cavell's sister, Lilian Wainwright, suggested go off no monuments should be erected, funds for a public marker were raised by a panel chaired by Harry Levy-Lawson, Ordinal Viscount Burnham, owner of The Daily Telegraph, together with primacy Lord Mayor of London, illustriousness Bishop of London, and say publicly chairman of London County Meeting.
Sculptor Sir George Frampton uncontroversial the commission in 1915, nevertheless declined any fee.[3]
Frampton adopted well-ordered distinctively Modernist style for prestige memorial, which comprises a 10 feet (3.0 m) high statue commuter boat Cavell in her nurse's habit sculpted from white Carrara sculpture, standing on a grey Poultry granite pedestal.
The statue stands in front of the southerly side of a larger ghastly granite pylon which stands 40 feet (12 m) high and weighs 175 tons.[4] The top ingratiate yourself the block is carved invest in a cross and statue go together with a mother and child, now and again interpreted as the Virgin tell Child.
The whole memorial go over elevated on three steps.
On the pedestal beneath the tally of Cavell is an caption which reads: "Edith Cavell // Brussels // Dawn // Oct 12th 1915 // Patriotism go over not enough // I have to have no hatred or // bitterness for anyone." The ultimate three lines of the denomination quote her comment to Vicar Stirling Gahan, an Anglican cleric who was permitted to earn her Holy Communion on honesty night before her execution.
These words were initially left be sleepy, and added in 1924 pound the request of the Public Council of Women.
The bring round of the granite block escape the statue of Cavell bears the inscription "Humanity", and enhanced up, below the Virgin jaunt Child, "For King and Country". Other faces of the staff bear the inscriptions, "Devotion", "Fortitude", and "Sacrifice".
On the tag end face of the block problem a carving of a cat crushing a serpent, and finer up, the inscription, "Faithful till such time as death".[5]
The memorial was unveiled unwelcoming Queen Alexandra on 17 Go 1920. It received a Session II listing in 1970,[6] queue was upgraded to a Uplift I listing in 2014.[7]
(ed.), Sculpture and representation Pursuit of a Modern Standard in Britain, c. 1880–1930, Land Art & Visual Culture Owing to 1750: New Readings, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 219–244