NATIONAL MEMORIAL HALL

Evening Star, Issue 22684, 25 June 1937, Page 11

NATIONAL MEMORIAL HALL

SOME PARTICULARS OF DESIGN LAi.IF OF MEMORY TO LIGHT ROLL OF HONOUR [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Juno 25. * Interviewed, the chairman of the Carillon Society, Mr A. Cowles, gave particulars supplied by the designer, Mr Gummer, of the National Memorial Hall which it is proposed shall _bo added to the National War Memorial, the Carillon Tower, Wellington. The design of the hall is based on the winning design of the National War Memorial, of which the tower forms a part. Without the hall the tower has an unfinished appearance from behind. The bottom chamber of the tower was designed to form the vestibule of the hall. The hall is to bo 61ft long, 38ft wide, and 26ft high. On each side of the entrance there will ho a statue of a soldier on guard. The in-tex-ior -will bo like the nave of a church, with Hanking recesses at the side. The chapels at the far end of the nave will ho prolonged into a shrine containing marble _ statuary, typifying the spirit of sacrifice. Coloured stone is suggested for the walls, rubber for the floor of the nave, a-d ’-’arblo for the floor of the sanctuary. • As the hall will he partly below ground, the lighting w-ill be from above, and so arranged as to light the sanctuary and side recesses, where the indfvidual memorials of various units will ho placed. The altar will be placed before the shrine, and on this a vellum roll of honour with the names of all the dead iu the war 1 will bo lighted by a lamp of memory above.