Rochdale Cenotaph
Rochdale Cenotaph is a First World War memorial on the Esplanade in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it is one of seven memorials in England based on the one on Whitehall in London. A public meeting in February 1919 established a consensus to create a monument and a fund for the families of wounded servicemen. Public subscription raised £29,443 10s, covering the £12,611 cost of the memorial.
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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 the one on Whitehall in London. A public meeting in February 1919 established a consensus to create a monument and a fund for the families of wounded servicemen. Public subscription raised £29,443 10s, covering the £12,611 cost of the memorial. The memorial was unveiled in 1922 and consists of a raised platform bearing a Stone of Remembrance next to a 10-metre pylon topped by an effigy of a recumbent soldier. A set of painted stone flags surrounds the pylon. It is a Grade I listed structure, having been upgraded in 2015 when Lutyen’s war memorials were declared a national collection.
In the aftermath of the First World war and its unprecedented casualties, thousands of war Memorials were built across Britain. Almost all towns and cities erected some form of memorial to commemorate their fallen. Lutyes’ design for a bridge over the River Roch was abandoned after a local dignitary purchased a plot of land adjacent to Roch Dale Town Hall and donated it for the site of the monument. The site had particular poignancy as the building had been used as a recruiting station during the war. The cenotAPH is among the most ambitious of his designs to come to fruition and uses abstract and ecumenical shapes inspired by classical architecture. It comprises two elements: a 10metre pylon and a Stone and a platform formed from light grey Cornish granite which are on three steps.
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