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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Sculptured / Cast figure
- District
- Banbridge
- Town
- Banbridge
- County
- Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Commemoration
- Non-Combat Deaths
- Maker
- WILLIAM BARRE (Architect)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: C1861
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 43295
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- Description
- 'FOUR SNARLING POLAR BEARS GINGERLY BACK UP DIAMETRICAL BUTTRESSES TO PROTECT AN ARCHED TEMPIETTO WITH ITS ARCHES CURVING OUTWARDS TO UPHOLD A TRUNCATED SPIRE.THIS IS WREATHED WITH ROPES, ANCHORS AND MILITARY CROSSES. ABOVE, THE CAPTAIN REPOSES ON HIS SWORD; BENEATH HIM, NICHES ENSHRINE INSCRIPTIONS AND TRIPLE-MASTED BOATS EMBEDDED IN THE ICE.' (WILLIAMS)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Non-Combat Deaths
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- Non-Combat Deaths
- Components
- Sculpture
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Sculpture
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- BRITAIN'S MARITIME MEMORIALS & MEMENTOES by SAUNDERS, DAVID 136 Source: Image Library NIWM Published:PATRICK STEPHENS LIMITED 1996 SPARKFORD
- A COMPANION GUIDE TO ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND 1837-1921 by WILLIAMS, JEREMY 101 Source: Image Library Published:IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS LTD 1994 DUBLIN
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