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Leonard Stanford Merrifield (1880 – 25 April 1943) was a British sculptor, notable for the public monuments he created in Cornwall and in Northern Ireland.
Leonard Stanford Merrifield | |
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Born | 1880 |
Died | 25 April 1943 London, England |
Nationality | British |
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Known for | Sculpture |
Merrifield was born at Wyck Rissington in Gloucestershire and initially trained as a stone carver before studying at the Cheltenham School of Art.[1] He moved to London to study at the City and Guilds of London Art School and then at the Royal Academy Schools.[1] Throughout his career Merrifield was based in London and created statuettes and portraits busts plus a number of larger public monuments, statues and war memorials.[2]
From 1906 to 1940 Merrifield was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London.[3] In 1919 at the Royal Academy Exhibition of War Memorials, Merrifield showed a design of a statute of a soldier with bayonet fixed standing in front of a Celtic cross.[4] Merrifield was subsequently commissioned to create a version of this design for the war memorial at Burnham in Buckinghamshire.[4] He received a gold medal from the Paris Salon in 1939 and exhibited with both the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal West of England Academy.[1] He was heavily involved with the Art Workers' Guild and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1926.[1] The National Museum Wales holds a marble bust of Robert Drane (1832-1914) and a bronze Pieta by Merrifield.[5]
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Alderman David Jones | The Marble Hall, Cardiff City Hall | 1909 | Bust | Marble | [6] | |||
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Robert Drane | National Museum Cardiff | 1910 | Bust | Marble | 68.5cm | [7] | ||
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William Williams Pantycelyn | The Marble Hall, Cardiff City Hall | 1916 | Statue on pedestal | Marble | [8] | |||
War memorial | Town Park, High Street, Burnham, Buckinghamshire | 1920 | Celtic cross with statue | Stone and bronze | Grade II | Q66478180 | [4][9][10] | ||
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War memorial | The Strand, Newlyn, Cornwall | 1920 | Celtic cross with relief panel | Stone and bronze | Grade II | Q66478950 | Monument designed by Sir Edward Prioleau Warren with relief panel by Merrifield.[11][12] | |
War memorial | Redburn Square, Holywood, County Down | 1922 | Statue on pedestal | Stone | [13] | ||||
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Hedd Wyn | Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd | 1923 | Statue on stepped pedestal with tablet | Bronze, stone and stone | Grade II | Q29505236 | [14][15][16] | |
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Staffordshire County war memorial | Victoria Road, Stafford | 1923 | Statue group on cenotaph with panels | Bronze and stone | 12m high | Grade II | Q26585719 | Designed by William Robert Colton, completed by Merrifield[17][18] |
War memorial | Town Square, Comber, County Down | 1923 | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | [3][19] | ||||
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Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry war memorial | Outside of Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum, Bodmin, Cornwall | Sculpture 1922, erected 1924 | Statue on pedestal and steps | Bronze and granite | Grade II* | Q2658734 | [20][2] | |
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Memorial to Charles Frohman | The Causeway, Marlow, Buckinghamshire | 1924 | Statue with drinking fountain | Stone | Grade II | Q26418122 | Frohman died in the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania.[21][22] | |
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Richard Trevithick | Camborne, Cornwall | 1928 | Statue on pedestal with panels | Gilded bronze and granite | Grade II | Q26647292 | [14][23] | |
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War memorial | Church Place, Lurgan, County Armagh | 1928 | Statue on hexagonal dome structure | Bronze and stone | [3][24] | |||
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War memorial | Pontmorlais Circus, Merthyr Tydfil | 1931 | Three statues and surround | Bronze and Portland stone | Grade II | Q29489908 | [14][25][26] | |
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Edward Carson | Stormont Parliament Buildings, Belfast | 1933 | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | [3][27] | |||
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Richard Trevithick | Gower Street, London | 1933 | Relief plaque | Bronze | Q50078783 | [14] | ||
King David and Miriam | York Minster, York | Two statues in niches | Stone | [6] |
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