Église St Andrew de Mells

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L'église St Andrew est une église paroissiale anglicane située dans le village de Mells, dans le comté anglais du Somerset. L'église est classée Grade I. Elle appartient au diocèse de Bath et Wells.

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Equestrian statue of Edward Horner

The equestrian statue of Edward Horner stands inside St Andrew's Church in the village of Mells in Somerset, south-western England. It was designed by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, as a memorial to Edward Horner, who died of wounds in the First World War. The sculpture was executed by Sir Alfred Munnings. Edward Horner was the only surviving son and heir of Sir John and Lady Frances Horner of Mells Manor and a member of an extended upper-class social group known as the Coterie, many of whom were killed in the war. The group included Diana Manners who Edward pursued unsuccessfully for several years, his future brother-in-law - Raymond Asquith, Julian Grenfell, Patrick Shaw-Stewart and Charles Lister. Shortly after the war broke out, he was a yeomanry officer in the part-time Territorial Force but he was keen to join the fighting on the Western Front and obtained a transfer to a cavalry regiment through his family's connections. He was wounded in May 1915, losing a kidney, and did not return to the war until early 1917. He was assigned a staff post but again secured a transfer to the front line. Shortly after his return to the fighting, on 21 November 1917, he was wounded again; he died the same day. Lutyens was a friend of the Horner family, having designed multiple buildings and structures for them since the beginning of the 20th century. As well as Horner's memorial, he designed a memorial to Raymond Asquith, and Mells War Memorial in the centre of the village. For Horner's memorial, Lutyens designed the plinth himself, and engaged the renowned equestrian painter and war artist Alfred Munnings for the latter's first public work of sculpture. The plinth is in Portland stone and set into it is Horner's original grave marker; the family's coat of arms is carved into the front, while the sides bear various dedicatory inscriptions. The statue is a bronze of a cavalry officer on horseback, bare-headed, with his helmet and sword on the horse's saddle. Lutyens was known for abstract and ecumenical themes in his war memorial designs, but the statue of Horner is an example of his use of more conventional imagery to commemorate an individual. Installed in the Horner family chapel in St Andrew's Church in 1920 at a cost of £1,000, it was moved to its present location in the church in 2007.

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St Andrew's Church, Mells

St Andrew's Church is a Church of England parish church located in the village of Mells in the English county of Somerset. The church is a grade I listed building.

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Mells Manor

Mells Manor at Mells, Somerset, England, was built in the 16th century for Edward Horner, altered in the 17th century, partially demolished around 1780, and restored by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the 20th century. The house, along with the garden walls, has been designated as a Grade I listed building, and is closely associated with the adjacent Church of St Andrew. The gardens are listed, Grade I, on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.

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Mells War Memorial

Mells War Memorial is a First World War memorial by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the village of Mells in the Mendip Hills of Somerset, south-western England. Unveiled in 1921, the memorial is one of multiple buildings and structures Lutyens designed in Mells. His friendship with two prominent families in the area, the Horners and the Asquiths, led to a series of commissions; among his other works in the village are memorials to two sons—one from each family—killed in the war. Lutyens toured the village with local dignitaries in search of a suitable site for the war memorial, after which he was prompted to remark "all their young men were killed". The memorial takes the form of a marble column topped by a sculpture of Saint George slaying a dragon, an image Lutyens used on two other public war memorials. At the base of the column, the names of the village's war dead are inscribed on stone panels. The memorial is flanked by identical rubble walls in local stone, on top of which grows a yew hedge. Low stone benches protrude from the walls to allow wreaths to be laid. Additional panels were fixed to the wall after the Second World War to commemorate that conflict. The memorial was unveiled on 26 June 1921 by Brigadier-General Arthur Asquith, whose brother is among those commemorated on it. It is a grade II* listed building and since 2015 has been part of a national collection of Lutyens' war memorials.

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Mells Village Hall

Mells Village Hall in Mells, Somerset, England was built in the 14th century as a tithe barn and now serves as the village hall. It is a Grade II* listed building.

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Histoire

L'église actuelle date principalement de la fin du XVe siècle et construite dans le style perpendiculaire. Elle est restaurée au milieu du XIXe siècle. L'église originelle appartenait en 1292 à l'abbaye de Glastonbury et sa valeur était évaluée à 35 marks. La tour actuelle date de 1446 et a une horloge du 17ème. Elle comporte un set de huit cloches, dont la plus ancienne date de 1716. Une autre cloche accrochée au toit du chœur date d'environ 1325 et figure sur la base de données nationale des cloches d'importance historique. L'église a des liens étroits avec les Asquith ainsi que les Horners qui vivaient à Mells Manor.

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Siegfried Sassoon Ronald Knox Sir Maurice Bonham Carter Violet Bonham Carter, baronne Asquith George A. Birmingham alias James Owen Hannay Christophe Hollis Katharine Asquith Reginald McKenna (dans la tombe de la famille McKenna) Lieutenant-colonel Simon Fordham OBE

Fonctionnalités

L'intérieur comprend un retable en marbre blanc et un autel en marbre polychrome avec un bénitier normand. Plusieurs vitraux datent des années 1850. Le bâtiment présente plusieurs caractéristiques décoratives importantes, notamment :

un vitrail de William Nicholson. une plaque de gesso blanc de 1886 par Edward Burne-Jones à Laura Lyttelton (une copie dorée du mémorial se trouve au Victoria and Albert Museum). une tapisserie d'après Burne-Jones par Lady Horner. une tablette de pierre énumérant les noms des morts du village des deux guerres mondiales. une couronne de bronze conçue par Sir Edwin Lutyens, avec un lettrage d'Eric Gill, à Raymond Asquith. une statue équestre d'Edward Horner (mort à Cambrai en 1917) par Sir Alfred Munnings (sur un socle de Lutyens). une plaque de bronze dédiée au capitaine Stanes Geoffrey Bates du 7th Queen's Own Hussars, tué au combat près d'Ypres pendant la Première Guerre mondiale.

Orgue

L'église possède un orgue de 1880 créé par William Gibbons Vowles. Les caractéristiques de l'orgue sont indiquées sur le National Pipe Organ Register.

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(en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « St Andrew's Church, Mells » (voir la liste des auteurs).

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Equestrian statue of Edward Horner

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St Andrew's Church, Mells

St Andrew's Church is a Church of England parish church located in the village of Mells in the English county of Somerset. The church is a grade I listed building.

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Mells Manor

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Mells War Memorial

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Mells Village Hall

Mells Village Hall in Mells, Somerset, England was built in the 14th century as a tithe barn and now serves as the village hall. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Community Centre Historic Site

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