On 5th July 1922, Henry Whitehead Bishop of Madras consecrated the extension to the chapel at Sherborne School, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield RA as a memorial to the 221 Old Shirburnians who fell in the First World War.
Find out about the service of dedication and consecration and the poem written about the occasion by the future Poet Laureate, Cecil Day-Lewis.
Sherborne School’s First World War Memorial
Posted 5 July 2022 by Sherborne School Archives
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