Lichfield War Memorial

The site was designed by Charles Bateman and was constructed between 1919 and 1920 to commemorate people from the city who were killed fighting in the First World War.

[3] The gate piers are brick with stone caps that support sculptures of lions bearing the coat of arms of the city.

[4] The memorial is English Renaissance in style and resembles a classical basilica façade and is rendered in limestone from Guiting Power, Gloucestershire.

[4][3] The pose is similar to that of Renaissance-era sculptor Giulio Angolo del Moro's statue of the saint on the façade of the San Giorgio Maggiore church in Venice.

/ LET ALL WHO COME AFTER / SEE TO IT / THAT THESE DEAD / SHALL NOT HAVE DIED / IN VAIN / THAT THEIR NAME / BE NOT FORGOTTEN / AND WHAT THEY STROVE FOR / PERISH NOT.THESE LOWER PANELS / ARE DEDICATED / TO THOSE / WHO DIED / IN THE CAUSE / OF FREEDOM / DURING / THE WORLD WAR / 1939–1945 / AND THE / STRUGGLES WHICH / FOLLOWED.In the years prior to the First World War the city of Lichfield housed the depot for the four reserve battalions of the South Staffordshire Regiment and the North Staffordshire Regiment.

[3] According to Historic England the balustrade and urns were relocated here from Shenstone Court in Staffordshire but George T. Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse, writing in 2005, state they came from Moxhull Hall in Warwickshire.

[3][4] The garden and memorial were opened on 20 October 1920 by the mayor, H. G. Hall, and dedicated the same day by the Bishop of Lichfield John Kempthorne.

This listing includes the walls, gate piers and balustrade but the memorial is noted as the primary object of interest.

[1][3] The memorial and gardens protection was raised to grade II* on 24 June 2016 as part of commemorations for the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme.