Lions on the War Memorial - Central Gardens, Bournemouth, Dorset, UK
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Dragontree
N 50° 43.295 W 001° 52.921
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These lions appear on the approach to the war memorial which stands within Bournemouth's Central Gardens in the Pleasure Gardens.
Waymark Code: WMDCMB
Location: Southern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/25/2011
Views: 2
One lion is cleaning his paws and the other is very alert. They are lovingly sculpted with manes, tails and features quite piercing.
Wikipedia describes the memorial:
'The Pleasure Gardens are still an important landmark and the Central Gardens contain the town's impressive war memorial, guarded by two stone lions. The War Memorial was installed in 1921 when the Borough Council moved to the adjacent Mont Dore Hotel, which it still occupies. Various building works were carried out - such as the Saint Stephen's Road bridge - to stamp the municipal identity on this area of the town; the war memorial was one of them. It was designed by Bournemouth's deputy architect Albert Edward Shervey, who copied the two lions (one sleeping, the other awake and roaring) from Antonio Cavona's lions which guarded the tomb of Pope Clement XIII.'
Physical Address:
Central Gardens
Bournemouth, Dorset United Kingdom
Web Site: [Web Link]
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