ALBION STONE CASE STUDY. JORDANS WHITBED & BASEBED. RAF Bomber.
Command Memorial. Green Park, London. CLIENT: RAF Bomber Command ...
ALBION STONE CASE STUDY
RAF Bomber Command Memorial Green Park, London
JORDANS WHITBED & BASEBED
CLIENT: RAF Bomber Command Memorial ARCHITECT: Liam O'Connor MAIN CONTRACTOR: S McConnell and Sons MATERIAL: Jordans Basebed & Jordans Whitbed
The new monument based in London’s Green Park will commemorate the 55,573 crew members of the RAF's Bomber Command who were killed between 1939 and 1945. The memorial, which was completed in 2012 ahead of the Queen's Jubilee celebrations, was designed by Architect Liam O'Connor, who is best known for the Armed Forces Memorial in Staffordshire. The sculpture is set on a 1.5 metre black basalt plinth. The height of the plinth and the scale of the sculpture as a whole means that visitors will always see the profile of the figure against the sky above them, day and night - thus rendering that section of the sky powerfully symbolic for the memorial. This project involved quarrying and mining some of the largest stones ever extracted from Portland - the memorial incorporates 77m³ of Jordan’s Whitbed, used for plint courses, curved benches and the stonework above the architrave blausters and copings, and 288m³ of Jordan’s Basebed in the two main sections of the structure and colonnades. Nearest Tube: Green Park Albion Stone plc, Robert Denholm House, Bletchingley Road, Nutfield, Surrey RH1 4HW England Tel: 01737 771772 Fax: 01737 771776 email:
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ALBION STONE CASE STUDY
Albion Stone plc, Robert Denholm House, Bletchingley Road, Nutfield, Surrey RH1 4HW England Tel: 01737 771772 Fax: 01737 771776 email:
[email protected] www.albionstone.com
JORDANS WHITBED & BASEBED
