Lincoln's Inn War Memorial is a
war memorial in
Lincoln's Inn
The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. (The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn.) Lincoln ...
, London. It was erected in 1921 as a memorial to members of the
Inn of Court
The Inns of Court in London are the professional associations for barristers in England and Wales. There are four Inns of Court – Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, Inner Temple and Middle Temple.
All barristers must belong to one of them. They ha ...
who died on active service during the
First World War. It became a Grade II
listed building in 1999.
The
Portland stone
Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries are cut in beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building sto ...
memorial comprises a central pylon with a curved screen incorporating seats to either side, terminating with piers at each end. The ensemble is about long and stands on a stone base with three steps.
The screen and central monument bears the
Latin inscription: "HOSPITIUM SOCIIS / SANGUINEM PRO PATRIA LARGITIS / FILIIS PARENTES" ("Offer your solidarity in honour of the allied sons who generously gave their blood for their country"), which can also be read as two separate inscriptions: "SANGUINEM PRO PATRIA LARGITIS" ("For those who generously gave their blood for their country") and "HOSPITIUM SOCIIS / FILIIS PARENTES" ("Offer your solidarity in honour of the allied sons"). The end piers bear the inscriptions "CIƆ IƆ CCCC XIV" and " CIƆ IƆ CCCC XIX" using
Roman numerals
Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers are written with combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet, eac ...
in the unusual
apostrophus form for the dates 1914 (MDCCCXIV) and 1919 (MDCCCXIX).
Brass plaques on the inside face of each pier record the names of the fallen from the First World War, listing 35 people in total. A bronze plaque on the central pylon listing 66 further names of the fallen from the First World War, in two columns. A further plaque was added listing another 29 names from the
Second World War, including
Prince George, Duke of Kent.
Other war memorials in Lincoln's Inn include a table, a book of remembrance, a plaque in the
chapel, and a memorial to a
Zeppelin air raid in 1915.
See also
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Inns of Court War Memorial near Berkhamsted
References
War memorial National Heritage List for England, Historic England
Monument: Lincoln's Inn War Memorial London Remembers
Lincolns Inn Cenotaph War Memorials Online
Inns of Court War Memorials Online
Bar Table, Lincoln's Inn Imperial War Museum
Book of Remembrance, Lincolns Inn Imperial War Museum
Lincolns Inn German Zeppelin Air Raid 1915, Lincolns Inn Imperial War Museum
Inns of Court Regiment – WW2 Tablet Imperial War Museum
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Buildings and structures completed in 1921
Military memorials in London
Grade II listed monuments and memorials
Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Camden
World War I memorials in England
War Memorial