PROPOSED YPRES MEMORIAL CHURCH.
The Ypres Times.
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Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, iR.A.
The estimate for building the Church is Ten Thousand Pounds, to which must be
added 15 per cent, for Maintenance.
The Church at Ypres will be on the rampart on the bastion immediately to the west
of the Lille Gate. It is proposed to build the Church of brick and stone with a central
space covered by a dome with an apse at east end, shallow transepts and entrance at
west end from a portico reached by a flight of stairs.
The Memorial to Lord Ypres and the suggested Memorials to the Five British Armies
and First Seven Divisions would be placed in the transepts.
The scheme for the Ypres Memorial Church has the full approval of the Dowager
Countess of Ypres, who has sent a generous donation.
Cheques can be paid direct to the Ypres Memorial Church Fund at Lloyds Bank, Limited,
6, Pall Mall, London, S.1F., or any other Branch of that Bank, or to the Honorary Secretary,
Colonel F. G. Poole, 9, Baker Street, London, W.
We wish to impress upon our readers that, although the costs of the Memorials to
the Missing at Tyne Cot and the Menin Gate mentioned in this appeal and of all the
War Cemeteries constructed by the Imperial War Graves Commission are being
defrayed out of funds provided by the different Governments of the Empire, there is
no such money available for the Ypres Memorial Church, so that we are solely dependent
upon the generosity of our subscribers.
