Devon County War Memorial
The Devon County War Memorial is a First World War memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It is situated on Cathedral Green in Exeter, the county town of Devon, in the south west of England. The memorial takes the form of a simple cross, made from a single block of granite quarried from Haytor on Dartmoor, in alignment with the altar.
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The Devon County War Memorial is a First World War memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It is situated on Cathedral Green in Exeter, the county town of Devon, in the south west of England. The first proposal for the county’s war memorial was to complete the construction of a cloister at Exeter Cathedral to be dedicated to Devon’s war dead, but this scheme was abandoned due to lack of funds. The committee chose to site the memorial on the green of Exeter cathedral after scouting several locations. The memorial takes the form of a simple cross, made from a single block of granite quarried from Haytor on Dartmoor, in alignment with the altar. It was unveiled by the Prince of Wales on 16 May 1921 and is a grade II* listed building. The Devon County memorial is one of two commissioned as a civic memorial in a city, the other being the York City War Memorial. Since 2015, all of Lutyen’s memorials in England have been protected by listed building status.
They include The Cenotaph in London, which became the focus for the national Remembrance Sunday commemorations, and the Haldon Beacon in the Cotswolds, which was dedicated to the 2nd Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, which fought at the Battle of La Ville-Bois des Bois des Buttes-Ponts-Pontailles in France in 1918 and 1919. They are one of 15 War Crosses designed by Lutyes to a similar specification between 1920 and 1925, and are part of a national collection of war memorials that are protected by the Historic England Trust. The design for the Devon County Memorial was commissioned by the Devon and Exeter War Memorial Committee in 1920, and was completed in 1921. It stands on a granite plinth, which itself sits on three steps, and is the only one of its kind to be located in a major British city. It has been described as a “simple but elegant monument” by Historic England.
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