Pearl Assurance War Memorial

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The Pearl Assurance War Memorial, also known as the Pearl Centre War Memorial, is a First World War memorial, designed by George Frampton for the Pearl Assurance Company. Erected in London in 1921, it was moved to Peterborough in 1991. It became a Grade II* listed building in 2019.

The memorial features a 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) high bronze statue by George Frampton depicting Saint George in medieval armour, standing on a slain dragon. Saint George is raising the hilt of his sword in his left hand to form a cross, encircled by a wreath, and resting his left hand on a shield which bears Saint George's Cross. The cast bears the name and date "GEO.

FRAMPTON RA / 1919". Frampton used a similar design, St George on top of a stone plinth, for Maidstone War Memorial. Edwin Lutyens had similar statues of St George by Frampton mounted on taller plinths for Hove War Memorial and Fordham War Memorial.

The statue is based on a statuette that Frampton exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899, and a small statuette held in the left hand of his monumental statue of Queen Victoria outside the Victoria Memorial, Kolkata. The statue stands on a square granite plinth, mounted on three granite steps...