Gravestone to Col Hon Harold G Henderson
Buscot
Oxfordshire, England
SN7 8DQ
Lutyens’s 1923 memorial to Harold Greenwood Henderson, south‑west of the church, is a stark Portland‑stone sarcophagus set at the end of a privet‑hedged enclosure, entered through a flat stone circle incised with a Celtic‑inspired cross and echoing the austere language of his war memorials.
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Description
SW of the church a MONUMENT by Lutyens to Harold Greenwood Henderson †1923, in the austere manner of his war memorials. Portland stone sarcophagus at the far end of an enclosure bounded by a privet hedge, with a cross inscribed in a flat stone circle at the entrance, of Celtic inspiration. (Tyack et al, 2010, p.225)
Bibliography
Tyack G, Bradley S, Pevsner N (2010) Berkshire. The Buildings of England. New Haven: Yale University Press.,