The Arts In Berwick -- Visual Arts -- Sculpture
Lady Jerningham's Statue



Whilst the statue of Hygeia is in the mid-Victorian style, the other statue in town, that of Lady Jerningham (d.1902) on Bankhill, is more up to date, being akin to paintings of grand Edwardian ladies by John Singer Sargent.

Annie, Lady Jerningham lived at Longridge Towers outside the town. Her husband was Governor of Trinidad and Tobago until 1900, where she may have contracted a tropical disease that hastened her early death at the age of 52. She was a keen supporter of various charities and local people were much saddened by her demise.

Sir Hubert Jerningham sketched out an idea for the white marble statue, which was formerly worked up into a design by Walter Ingram (1855-1913), a landscape artist and inveterate traveller. Carved in Italy, the statute was installed by the local stonemasons, John Wilson & son, based at Bridge End, Tweedmouth.


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