The Spalding War Memorial is a World War I memorial in the garden of Ayscoughfee Hall (pronounced / ˈæskəˌfiː /) in Spalding, Lincolnshire, East England. It was designed by the architect Sir Edwin Lutans. The proposal to commemorate the death of Spalding began in January 1918, when Barbara McLaren’s husband and the town’s Congressman Francis McLaren died in a flying accident during the war. . She hired Lutyens through family contacts, and the architect drew up a plan for a magnificent memorial monastery surrounding a circular pond, with one of the crosses in the middle. The memorial will be built in the formal garden of Ayscoughfee Hall, which is owned by the local district council. When McLaren approached the council with her proposal, it caused considerable debate in the community and proposed several alternatives. After a public meeting and voting in 1919, the reduced version proposed by McLaren became the preferred choice, with the clock of the town’s corn trading building.
The total cost of the memorial is 3,500 pounds, of which McLaren and her father-in-law each contributed 1,000 pounds; her brother-in-law donated a painted stone flag, and the rest was donated voluntarily until 1922. The memorial is composed of a brick pavilion and a memorial stone at the southern end of the garden, both at the southern end of the garden. The head of a long reflecting pool, which contains the remains of an 18th century canal. It was unveiled at a ceremony on June 9, 1922. Lutyens continued to use the pavilion style to build refuges in several war cemeteries on the Western Front, although none of his other war memorials followed the design and the memorial became relatively obscure. The Spalding War Memorial has been listed as a Grade One Protected Building today. When Lutans’ War Memorial was declared as a "national collection", all buildings received the architectural status of the list or the list was renewed. Thus it has been upgraded.