Building record 0440902014 - WALLS OF WAR MEMORIAL GARDEN, CLIVEDEN

Grade II. C1902 oval Italian garden cut into slope and lined with tufa rocks on east side, south end and at north and built into tall alcove. Tufa rock walls to entry path at north west. West side has Roman marble screen wall of lattice pattern with 4 uprights of herm type with head finials. East side has large bronze statue of woman by Sir B Mackennal standing above fine C1 Roman marble panel. North alcove contains Venetian wellhead dated 1561 and has bronze plaque recording conversion of garden to First World War memorial (B7).
In 1902 , William Waldorf Astor formed an oval Italian Garden on the hillside below the mansion to exhibit his collection of Roman sculpture. It was adapted as a cemetery for those who died in the Canadian Hospital at Cliveden during World War I by the Second Lord Astor and it became an official Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery. The Astors commissioned the statue from Betram Mackennal to stand over the graves in tribute to their sacrifice (B30).