File:Freemasons Hall. London. Shrine. Casket. Back. 1939.jpg

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English: Casket for the Roll of Honour, Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London. 1939. The shrine takes the form of an altar on a boat. It contains a continuous illuminated scroll inscribed with the names of the fallen. At the four corners guarding the scroll are the four kneeling figures representing the armed services. At the four corners of the body of the Shrine winged seraphs stand ready with trumpets to herald the arrival of pilgrims, alongside the national patron saints. The back of the Shrine (out of public view) is decorated with little sprays of flowers. The sides of the Shrine are decorated with sprays of sweet-smelling acacia, the sacred wood of the Temple. Subsidiary decorations are formed by the shell of the pilgrim, the laurels and bays of the warrior, rosemary for remembrance, and the lotus of eternal life in the prow of the boat conveying the souls on their voyage. There is an inscription on the lower right of the back of the casket: “Bro: H.V. Ashley, P.G.D. / Grand Supt. of Works / Bro: F. Winton Newman / P. Asst. Supt. of Works / Architects / Bro: Walter Gilbert / M M Lodge 587 / Sculptor 1939” Material: bronze cast, chased and enriched with patines obtained by acids, chemicals, wax and lacquers. The statuettes are firegilt. https://www.scribd.com/doc/17256374/Walter-Gilbert-Main-Inventory https://archive.org/details/WalterGilbert
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Source Contemporaneous photo commissioned by Walter Gilbert. File created from a print in the possession of Phillip Medhurst.
Author Phillip Medhurst
Other versions http://pdfcast.org/pdf/an-inventory-of-the-works-of-walter-gilbert-by-phillip-medhurst

Work conceived, designed and modelled by Walter Gilbert. This shrine is Freemason Gilbert’s last – and greatest – work. The importance attached to it by Gilbert himself is evidenced by the rare occurrence of an inscription crediting the artist. The mercury vapour used to gild the figures may have been instrumental in the lung damage which caused his death. http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1217252088 archive copy at the Wayback Machine

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