# Leonard Stanford Merrifield

Leonard Stanford Merrifield (1880 – 25 April 1943) was a British sculptor, notable for the public monuments he created in Cornwall and in Northern Ireland.

## Biography

Merrifield was born at Wyck Rissington in Gloucestershire and initially trained as a stone carver before studying at the Cheltenham School of Art. He moved to London to study at the City and Guilds of London Art School and then at the Royal Academy Schools. Throughout his career Merrifield was based in London and created statuettes and portraits busts plus a number of larger public monuments, statues and war memorials.
From 1906 to 1940 Merrifield was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London. In 1919 at the Royal Academy Exhibition of War Memorials, Merrifield showed a design of a statute of a soldier with bayonet fixed standing in front of a Celtic cross. Merrifield was subsequently commissioned to create a version of this design for the war memorial at Burnham in Buckinghamshire. He received a gold medal from the Paris Salon in 1939 and exhibited with both the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal West of England Academy. He was heavily involved with the Art Workers' Guild and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1926. The National Museum Wales holds a marble bust of Robert Drane (1832-1914) and a bronze Pieta by Merrifield.

## Selected public works

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
| More images | Alderman David Jones | The Marble Hall, Cardiff City Hall | 1909 | Bust | Marble | | | | |
| More images | Robert Drane | National Museum Cardiff | 1910 | Bust | Marble | 68.5cm | | | |
| More images | William Williams Pantycelyn | The Marble Hall, Cardiff City Hall | 1916 | Statue on pedestal | Marble | | | | |
| | War memorial | Town Park, High Street, Burnham, Buckinghamshire | 1920 | Celtic cross with statue | Stone and bronze | | Grade II | Q66478180 | |
| More images | War memorial | The Strand, Newlyn, Cornwall | 1920 | Celtic cross with relief panel | Stone and bronze | | Grade II | Q66478950 | Monument designed by Sir Edward Prioleau Warren with relief panel by Merrifield. |
| | War memorial | Redburn Square, Holywood, County Down | 1922 | Statue on pedestal | Stone | | | | |
| More images | Hedd Wyn | Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd | 1923 | Statue on stepped pedestal with tablet | Bronze, stone and stone | | Grade II | Q29505236 | |
| More images | Staffordshire County war memorial | Victoria Road, Stafford | 1923 | Statue group on cenotaph with panels | Bronze and stone | 12m high | Grade II | Q26585719 | Designed by William Robert Colton, completed by Merrifield |
| | War memorial | Town Square, Comber, County Down | 1923 | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and granite | | | | |
| More images | Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry war memorial | Outside of Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum, Bodmin, Cornwall | Sculpture 1922, erected 1924 | Statue on pedestal and steps | Bronze and granite | | Grade II* | Q2658734 | |
| More images | Memorial to Charles Frohman | The Causeway, Marlow, Buckinghamshire | 1924 | Statue with drinking fountain | Stone | | Grade II | Q26418122 | Frohman died in the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania. |
| More images | Richard Trevithick | Camborne, Cornwall | 1928 | Statue on pedestal with panels | Gilded bronze and granite | | Grade II | Q26647292 | |
| More images | War memorial | Church Place, Lurgan, County Armagh | 1928 | Statue on hexagonal dome structure | Bronze and stone | | | | |
| More images | War memorial | Pontmorlais Circus, Merthyr Tydfil | 1931 | Three statues and surround | Bronze and Portland stone | | Grade II | Q29489908 | |
| More images | Edward Carson | Stormont Parliament Buildings, Belfast | 1933 | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | | | | |
| More images | Richard Trevithick | Gower Street, London | 1933 | Relief plaque | Bronze | | | Q50078783 | |
| | King David and Miriam | York Minster, York | | Two statues in niches | Stone | | | | |

### Other works

* War memorial to Young Citizen Volunteers, the Royal Irish Rifles, Belfast City Hall
* Statue of Lord Craigavon, Stormont Parliament Buildings
* Statue of Asquith, Palace of Westminster, London, completed by Gilbert Bayes after Merrifield's death