Margaret MacDonald Memorial
Margaret MacDonald Memorial | |
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Artist | Richard Reginald Goulden |
Medium | Granite and bronze |
Subject | Margaret Ethel MacDonald |
Designation | Grade II listed |
Location | Lincoln's Inn Fields, London |
The Margaret MacDonald Memorial is a sculpture by Richard Reginald Goulden, beside the path at the north edge of the public park at Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. It became a grade II listed structure in 1974.
The memorial comprises a public seat within an alcove created by a granite surround, on which is mounted a bronze sculptural group portraying MacDonald kneeling with her arms outstretched protectively around a group of nine cherubic infant children who are laughing and playing. An inscription carved below the top edge of the stone surround reads: THIS SEAT IS IN MEMORY OF MARGARET MACDONALD WHO SPENT HER LIFE IN HELPING OTHERS.
A bronze plaque mounted on the back of the seat list biographical details of her birth, marriage, and life: SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JOHN & MARGARET GLADSTONE / SHE WAS BORN IN KENSINGTON IN 1870 · WAS MARRIED TO / RAMSAY MACDONALD IN 1896 AND LIVED WITH HIM AT / 3 LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS ·· HERE HER CHILDREN WERE / BORN AND HERE SHE DIED IN 1911 · SHE BROUGHT JOY / TO THOSE WITH WHOM AND FOR WHOM SHE LIVED AND / WORKED · HER HEART WENT OUT IN FELLOWSHIP TO HER / FELLOW WOMEN & IN LOVE TO THE CHILDREN OF THE PEOPLE / WHOM SHE SERVED AS A CITIZEN AND HELPED AS A SISTER · / SHE QUICKENED FAITH AND ZEAL IN OTHERS BY HER LIFE AND / TOOK NO REST FROM DOING GOOD.
The bronze sculpture was made by Goulden, to a design which has been attributed to MacDonald's widower, and cast at
References
- Mrs Ramsay Macdonald Memorial Seat on North Side Of Gardens, National Heritage List for England, Historic England
- Memorial Seat for Margaret MacDonald, Victorian Web
- Statue: Margaret MacDonald, London Remembers
- Margaret Ethel Macdonald, Statues for Equality