York City War Memorial
The York City War Memorial is a First World War memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It consists of a stone cross 33 feet high on three stone blocks and a stone base, beneath which are two further blocks and two shallow steps. Prince Albert, the Duke of York, unveiled the memorial on 25 June 1925.
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The York City War Memorial is a First World War memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and located in York in the north of England. It consists of a stone cross 33 feet high on three stone blocks and a stone base, beneath which are two further blocks and two shallow steps. Prince Albert, the Duke of York, unveiled the memorial on 25 June 1925, six years after the memorial fund was opened. The memorial itself is a grade II* listed building, having been upgraded when Lutyen’s war memorials were designated a national collection in 2015. It sits in a memorial garden, with an entrance designed by Lutyes using the remaining funds for the memorial. The York City Memorial was the fifteenth and final War Cross designed to a broadly similar design. It is the only other example of a War Cross serving as a civic memorial in a city. The Cenotaph in London, which became the focus for the national Remembrance Sunday commemorations, is the largest British war memorial anywhere in the world; and the Stone of Remembrance, which appears in all large Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries and in several of LutyENS’ civic memorials. In the aftermath of the First World war, thousands of war memorial’s were built across Britain.
A war memorial committee was established after a council meeting in May 1919 and the committee opened a memorial fund for donations in August. A series of public meetings produced still further ideas until a meeting on 14 January 1920, where a consensus was established in favour of a monument rather than any utilitarian proposal. The committee requested that the city engineer produce a design for a memorial Garden with an archway and a cenotAPH. The city engineer reported back with a design which he estimated would cost around £7,000 and the war memorialcommittee appointed Lutyened to oversee the project. The council tasked the war. memorial committee with considering several proposals, including a new city hall and a convalescent home, and several ideas for an educational institution. Some felt that the war dead should be commemorated through a building with some community purpose rather than a purely decorative monument. Most were commissioned for villages—the Devon County War Memorial in Exeter is theonly other example of a war memorial serving a civic purpose.
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