Philip Lindsey Clark

Philip Lindsey Clark (1889–1977) was an English sculptor. He first served with 28th London Regiment and was commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment on the 30 September 1916. He was awarded the D.S.O as well as the 1915 Star, and the British and Victory Medals and appears to have been “mentioned in despatches”.

Clark was born in London, the son of sculptor Robert Lindsey Clark. He studied at Cheltenham from 1905 to 1910, and at the City and Guilds School, London from 1910 to 1914. After the First World War, he completed his studies at the Royal Academy Schools.

He is known for his war memorial at Southwark well, a landmark when approaching London Bridge from the south. He also worked on the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) War Memorial in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, Scotland.

Clark did much work in the ecclesiastical field and carved the 14 Stations of the Cross, the statue of the Sacred Heart at the main door and the carvings in the tympanum above the door at the Sacred Heart Church in Hillsborough, Sheffield, England. He also designed the statue “Our Lady St Mary of Glastonbury” at the Glastonbury Catholic Church on Magadalene Street, Glastonbury in England, a stone bas-relief for St Francis of Assisi Church on Colchester Road, Halstead, Essex in England and the statue “Our Lady of Lourdes” for St Mary's Church, Warrington in England.

He also produced sculptural work for Aylesford Priory or “The Friars” at Aylesford in Kent, England, working with his son Michael Clark.

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