English: Casket for the Roll of Honour, Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London. 1939. The building was itself conceived as a war memorial; the shrine is its focal point. It 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 of the body of the Shrine winged seraphs stand ready with trumpets to herald the arrival of pilgrims, alongside the national patron saints. The face of the Shrine has four gilded figures: Moses with the Tables of the Law; Joshua at the battle of Bethoron; Solomon in his wisdom; St. George for England. Binding all these figures together is a band of symbolic flowers. In the centre of this the soul of man rests in the Hand of the Almighty. There are some little boat-shaped forms at the base supporting the shrine and resting on the stone on which the waters of everlasting life are carved. Material: bronze cast, chased and enriched with patines obtained by acids, chemicals, wax and lacquers. The statuettes are fire-gilt. 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 (out of sight of the observer at the rear of the casket) crediting the artist. The mercury vapour used to gild the figures may have been instrumental in the lung damage which caused his death. Work conceived, designed and modelled by Walter Gilbert (a Freemason). Bronze casting by H. H. Martyn of Cheltenham. Photo by Phillip Medhurst. Metalwork 1939. Photo 1992. https://www.scribd.com/doc/17256374/Walter-Gilbert-Main-Inventory

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