Sandham Memorial Chapel

Bettany Hughes’s Ten Places, Europe and Us

Dec 5, 201621:59Society & Culture

The Sandham Memorial Chapel in Hampshire is Stanley’s Spencer’s monument to the forgotten dead of the First World War. The murals draw on Spencer’s experiences serving first as a medical orderly in Britain and then on ac...

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