TEMPLE BAR MEMORIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2424, 23 December 1880, Page 4

TEMPLE BAR MEMORIAL.

The Temple Bar memorial, which has excited so much ill-will, and which is nearly completed, is of polished granite, into which are cut two niches, to contain marble statues of the Queen and the Prince of Wales. On each surface of the pedestal are bas-reliefs in bronze, that on the west face bearing an ornamental scroll, with an inscription explaining the object of the memorial ; that on the east face being a representation of old Temple Bar ; that on the south representing the Queen visiting the City in State after her Accession on Nov. 9, 1837, and receiving an address by the scholars of Christ’s Hospital at St. Paul's Cathedral ; and that on the north being a commemoration of tbo Royal Procession to St Paul’s Cathedral on the Thanksgiving Day for the recovery of the Prince of Wales from his dangerous illness iu February, 1872. The pilasters and entablature, as well as the pedestal of the bronze dragon, are in Craigleitb stone, which is of a delicate grey, and selected to resist the action of our trying atmosphere. The niches and panels between the pilasters are of Ancaster cream-coloured stone —the panels being carved in diaper pattern, with emblems of Art, Science, Peace, and War. Into these panels are to be let two medallion likenesses—one, that of Sir Francis W. Truscott, the late Lord Mayor, and the other of some City official.