Mells War Memorial

Mells, United Kingdom

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Mells War Memorial is a First World War commemoration designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled in 1921 in the village of Mells, Somerset. One of several commissions Lutyens undertook in the area through friendships with local families including the Horners and Asquiths, the memorial rises as a Purbeck marble column crowned by a sculpture of Saint George slaying a dragon—an iconographic choice Lutyens repeated on two other public memorials. Names of the village's war dead are inscribed on stone panels at the column's base. The structure is flanked by symmetrical rubble walls built in local stone and topped with a yew hedge, with low stone benches positioned to receive wreaths. Secondary panels commemorating the Second World War were added later. Unveiled on 26 June 1921 by Brigadier-General Arthur Asquith, whose brother is among those named, the memorial stands as a Grade II* listed building and forms part of a national collection of Lutyens' war memorials since 2015.