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Sister Dora wears a Victorian nursing uniform and holds a bandage in her hand. She stands on a square plinth, each side of which bears a narrative panel depicting scenes from her life.

Title

Sister Dora (1832–1878)

Date

1883

Medium

bronze & red Peterhead granite

Measurements

H 200 x W (?) x D (?) cm;
Plinth: H 107 x W 97 x D (?) cm

Accession number

WS1_RA_S084

Acquisition method

commissioned by the British War Memorial Committee

Work type

Statue

Owner

Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

Custodian

Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

11th October 1886

Access

at all times

Inscription description

at the statue's feet: SISTER DORA; towards the foot of the plinth on a bronze plaque: DOROTHY WYNDLOW PATTISON – SISTER DORA / WAS BORN ON 16TH JANUARY, 1832. SHE CAME TO WALSALL IN 1865 / AND FOR THE FOLLOWING THIRTEEN YEARS WORKED CEASELESSLY / TO ESTABLISH A PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL SERVICE IN THE TOWN. / HER GREAT DEVOTION TO THE WORKING PEOPLE OF WALSALL EARNED / HER WIDESPREAD RESPECT. WHEN SHE DIED IN 1878 THOUSANDS / MOURNED HER AND LATER SHE BECAME THE COUNTRY'S FIRST / WOMAN, OTHER THAN A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, TO / BE COMMEMORATED BY A STATUE.; on a plaque at the back of the pedestal: IN 1886 THIS STATUE WAS ORIGINALLY CARVED IN / MARBLE WHICH DETERIORATED DUE TO WEATHERING / OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS. IN 1956 THIS BRONZE / CAST WAS MADE OF THE ORIGINAL MODEL AND / THE COST WAS MET BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION

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