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Title*

Memorial to 8th and 9th Submarine Flotillas
County   District Council Babergh Dstrict Council 
Civil Parish or equivalent Shotley  Town/Village* Shotley 
Road Church End 
Precise Location Churchyard of St Mary Shotley 
OS Grid Ref TM235360  Postcode IP9 
Previous location(s)  
Setting Churchyard  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
F. Brook Hitch  Sculptor(s)   
A.H. Ryan Tenison  Architect(s)   

Commissioned by

 Private 

Design & Constrn period

 1919 

Date of installing

  

Exact date of unveiling

 Dedicated 26 June 1919 Bishop Hornby 

Category
Abstract Animal Architectural
Commercial Commemorative Composite
Free Functional Funerary
Heraldic Military Natural
Non-Commemorative Performance Portable
Religious Roadside, Wayside Sculptural
Temporary, Mobile Other  

Object Type
Building Clock Tower Architectural
Coat of Arms Cross Fountain
Landscape Marker Medallion
Mural Panel Readymade
Relief Shaft Sculpture
Statue Street Furniture War Memorial
Other Object Sub Type: World War I Memorial to Edith Cavell

Subject Type
Allegorical Mythological Pictorial
Figurative Non-figurative Portrait
Still-life Symbolic Other

Subject Sub Type
Bust Equestrian Full-length
Group Head Reclining
Seated Standing Torso
Part Material Dimension
Column  Portland stone  H. 4 metres 
Grieving Mary  Bronze  Life size 
Plaque on lych gate  Bronze  H. 60 cms W. 30 cms 

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 St Mary's Parochial Church Council 

Listing status
Grade I Grade II* Grade II Don't Know Not Listed

Surface Condition
Corrosion, Deterioration Accretions
Bird Guano Abrasions, cracks, splits
Biological growth Spalling, crumbling
Metallic staining Previous treatments
Other  
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Structural Condition
Armature exposed Broken or missing parts
Replaced parts Loose elements
Cracks, splits, breaks, holes Spalling, crumbling
Water collection Other
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Vandalism
Graffiti Structural damage Surface Damage
Detail:

Overall condition
Good Fair Poor

Risk
No Known Risk At Risk Immediate
Signatures/Marks F. Brook Hitch SC 1919 on base of Mary 
Inscriptions PLAQUE ON LYCH GATE: TO THE GLORY / OF GOD AND / IN MEMORY OF / THE OFFICERS AND MEN / OF THE 8TH AND 9TH / SUBMARINE FLOTILLAS / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR KING AND COUNTRY / DURING THE GREAT / WAR 1914 - 1919. / A GOOD LIFE HATH BUT A / FEW DAYS BUT A GOOD NAME / ENDURETH FOR EVER. / ECCLESIASTICUS XL1 13. Plinth (By Rudyard Kipling): There is but one / Task for all / One life for each to give / Who stands if freedom fall/ Who dies if England Live? 

Description (physical)

 This free standing monument is set in the churchyard overlooking the River Orwell. It is surrounded by gravestones separated by seven Portland stone posts each with lion head reliefs. Further WWII gravestones have been added outside the wooden posts marking the memorial. Entrance is through the lych gate again facing towards the river. The mourning Mary faces the east end of the church. The cenotaph like column is framed by bronze dolphins at its foot with four bronze plaques on top. These show anchors within wreaths and Medieval and Viking ships. A Submarine is included on top of the plaque to lych gate. Ryan Tenison may have been chosen as architect since his cousin, Lieut. Julian Tenison R.N. and his crew are buried in the compound. The success of the monument led Ryan Tenison and Brook Hitch to be commissioned for the National Submarine Memorial of 1922 on the Victoria embankment, an extended version of the top of that at Shotley, where a view of the interior of a submarine in a roundel is surrounded by allegorical figures. 

Description (iconographical)

  

Photographs

 Date taken:  4/9/2007
Date logged: 

Photographed by:
Sarah Cocke

On Site Inspection

 Date:  4/9/2007

Inspected by:
Richard Cocke

Sources and References

 ukniwm.org.uk : 4478 (accessed 02/09/07; Mortlock, D.P., The Guide to Suffolk Churches, Cambridge, 2009, 415 

Database

 Date entered:  18/9/2007

Data inputter:
Richard Cocke