The Dulwich Old College War Memorial is located in the forecourt of Dulwich Old College on College Road in

Dulwich Dulwich (; ) is an area in south London, England. The settlement is mostly in the London Borough of Southwark, with parts in the London Borough of Lambeth, and consists of Dulwich Village, East Dulwich, West Dulwich, and the Southwark half of ...

in the London Borough of Southwark. It marks the deaths of the former pupils of the college who died in the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

between 1914 and 1919.War Memorial: Dulwich Old College (WMR-1159)
War Memorial: Dulwich Old College (WMR-72467)
accessdate: December 15, 2017 The memorial is made from

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and was designed by

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. It was unveiled in 1921. It has been

grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

on the National Heritage List for England since May 2010. The heritage listing places the memorial within a "visual and contextual relationship" with the Grade II listed Old College building and the entrance gates and piers of the Old College, also Grade II listed.

Description

The memorial is in the form of a tall tapering shaft of

, topped by a diamond

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which bears carved images of

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to the north and south sides. The shaft stands on a square pedestal, with its north face decorated with the shield of Dulwich College with the college motto DETUR GLORIA/ SOLI DEO ("Let glory be given to God alone") inscribed above, and the south face has a panel with a design of a double trefoil-headed window. The pedestal stands on a four tiered octagonal plinth. The top tier is decorated with floral motifs and encircled by an inscription in raised letters: Oak panels on the south wall of Christ's Chapel in the Old College building record the names of the dead.

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External links

War Memorials Online

Badsey Society
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