
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Chapel or Church: Freestanding building
- District
- Hillingdon
- Town
- Ruislip Common
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2187
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Current location
Mad Bess Wood
Near Mad Bess Cottage
between Ducks Hill Road and North Breakspear Road
Open Air Chapel War Memorial
Ducks Hill Road
Ruislip Common
Hillingdon
Greater London
HA4 7TL
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 08456 88834
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Grassed area surrounded by a hedge and trees with a plaque on a low concrete plinth near the entrance. Open air chapel (23,m x 10.6m) surrounded by beech hedge, inscription plaque mounted on stone. Open air chapel approximately 24 yards long by 11 yards wide surrounded by beech hedge.
- Inscription
- THIS CHAPEL IS DEDICATED/TO THE MEMORY OF/THE YOUTH OF RUISLIP/WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/1939-1945/THE 1ST RUISLIP SCOUT GROUP/UNDER THEIR FOUNDER DR W MAX WILSON/CONCEIVED THIS IDEA WHICH ALSO/ PERPETUATED THE MEMORY OF/THEIR 20 MEMBERS WHO FELL
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 177.8 mm, width 228.6 mm
Materials: Bronze - Garden
Measurements: width 23M
Materials: Stone - Stone of remembrance
Measurements: height 254 mm, width 381 mm
Materials: Stone - Chapel
Measurements: height 1905 mm, width 889 mm
Materials: Undefined
- Plaque
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Mad Bess Open-Air Chapel
- WMO ID: 253067
- Condition: Poor [last updated on 06-01-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- The Home Front: Ruislip, Northwood and Eastcote in wartime by Ruislip, Northwood and Eastcot p.47 (2007) (Kay Holmes, Scout Chapel in Mad Bess Wood, Ruislip, RNELHS Journal 1996 pg 47).
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