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Watford War Memorial
Watford Peace Hospice

Watford War Memorial is a war memorial now located outside the town hall in
Watford, Hertfordshire, England. Also known as Watford Peace Memorial, it comprises
three bronze sculptures of nude males on a white Portland stone base. The sculptor
was Mary Pownall Bromet, a student of Auguste Rodin: it is her only war memorial,
and a rare example of a war memorial by a woman. It is also an unusual example of a
war memorial that incorporates nude sculptures.

The memorial was originally constructed outside the Peace Memorial Hospital in
Watford, now the Peace Hospice, which was initially funded by public subscription
to commemorate the dead of the First World War. The bronze sculptures are based on
plaster figures which Bromet had donated to the hospital. The three figures
represent, left: "To The Fallen", a seated man grieving; centre, "Victory", a man
standing with right arm raised; and right, "To The Wounded", a seated man. The
bronzes were cast at the Morris Singer foundry, and the memorial was unveiled by
George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon on 1 July 1928.

When the hospital closed, the memorial was moved in 1971 to a location on The
Parade outside Watford Town Hall. It was restored in 2013 to remove copper staining
and algae. The streaked weathered patina of the bronzes was retained, as the artist
had intended them to age. It was granted a Grade II listing in 1983, and upgraded
to Grade II* in 2017.
See also

Grade II* listed buildings in Watford

Grade II* listed war memorials in England

References

Watford Peace Memorial, National Heritage List for England, Historic England
Watford War Memorial, Imperial War Museum
Watford War Memorial, roll-of-honour.com
Watford Peace Memorial, War Memorials Online
Watford General Hospital (Peace Memorial Wing), Lost Hospitals of London
Watford Peace Memorial, War Memorials Trust
Watford and South West Herts in the Great War, Eugenia Russell, Quentin
Russell, p.134

Categories:

1928 sculpturesMonuments and memorials in HertfordshireOutdoor sculptures in

EnglandGrade II* listed buildings in Hertfordshire

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