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.

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.

Selected public works

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