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Mill Hill School

The Gate of Honour at Mill Hill School in Barnet, north London, is a large Grade II listed classical arch made from Portland stone. It has square columns at the corners, a pair of Corinthian columns at the front and at the back and a shallow pitched roof with a pediment above both the front and the back elevations. A set of eight steps leads up to the memorial, which is entered through a pair of iron gates with decorative panels. Within the structure is an elaborately moulded cedar wood ceiling and around the walls are panels incised with gilded letters commemorating the names of former pupils of the school who fell in the two world wars. There are inscriptions along the entablatures of both the front and back of the memorial.

In 2001/2 this memorial received a grant of £5,000 from English Heritage. The main works were the removal of the blue copper staining from the stone work, re-gilding of the lettering, cleaning, consolidating and conserving the painted ceiling, including minor touching-in but not re-painting, cleaning, repairing and re-gilding the gates, repairing the copper roof and replacing the chain to match the original.

The inscription on the entablature on the front of the gateway reads:

"Gate of honour"

and on the rear elevation:

"Pro patria servatoribus servati memores DDD"

The memorial was dedicated on 30th October 1920 by General Lord Horne. The architect was Mr Stanley Hamp FRIBA, Mr P G Bentham did the carving and Mr G W Murray painted the ceiling.

Further information

War Memorials Trust reference WM1278
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 53486

Information about General Lord Horne.

If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org

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