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The Cenotaph is a war memorial on Whitehall in London, England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it was unveiled in 1920 as the United Kingdom's national memorial to the dead of Britain and the British Empire of the First World War, was rededicated in 1946 to include those of the Second World War, and has since come to represent the Commonwealth casualties from those and subsequent conflicts.
Rochdale Cenotaph is a First World War memorial on the Esplanade in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in the north west of England.Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it is one of seven memorials in England based on his Cenotaph in London and one of his more ambitious designs.
Lutyens's design for The Cenotaph. Lutyens also refurbished Lindisfarne Castle for its wealthy owner. [19] One of Lutyens's smaller works, but considered one of his masterpieces, is The Salutation, a house in Sandwich, Kent, England.
War memorial honouring Britain’s fallen soldiers designed by Sir Edward Lutyens in 1920 and has stood as centrepiece of National Service of Remembrance ever since
Southampton Cenotaph is a First World War memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and located in Watts Park in the southern English city of Southampton.The memorial was the first of dozens by Lutyens to be built in permanent form and it influenced his later designs, including the Cenotaph in London.
Lutyens was inspired by the Greek idea of a cenotaph Greek: κενοτάφιον kenotaphion (κενός kenos, meaning "empty", and τάφος taphos, "tomb"), [4] as representative for a tomb elsewhere or in a place unknown. For some time after the parade, the base of the memorial was covered with flowers and wreaths by members of the public.
Lutyens first proposed a cenotaph for Southend-on-Sea, but changed his plans to deliver a tapering Portland stone obelisk rising to approximately 11 metres (36 feet) tall, sitting on a square base with a moulded cornice above a rectangular pedestal of six unequal-sized stones, all similar in form to his contemporaneous North Eastern Railway War ...
A cenotaph in the UK that stands in Whitehall, London, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens [16] and replaced Lutyens' identical wood-and-plaster cenotaph erected in 1919 for the Allied Victory Parade, and is a Grade I listed building. [17] It is undecorated save for a carved wreath on each end and the words "The Glorious Dead", chosen by Lloyd ...