Southport War Memorial

The memorial was designed by the local architects Grayson and Barnish, and the carving was executed by Herbert Tyson Smith.

As a result of a meeting on 14 February 1919 a War Memorial Committee was established to raise money by public subscription for a monument, to extend the hospital, and to provide grants for bereaved children.

The monument was to be sited in London Square as part of a scheme to remodel the centre of the town.

[b] The original designs did not specifically include any sculpture, and concern was expressed about this, leading to the appointment of Herbert Tyson Smith as sculptor.

Following the Second World War, an additional inscription was designed by Barnish and executed by Tyson Smith; this was unveiled on 28 October 1956.

They are in the style of Greek temples, symmetrical with a rectangular plan, are in a single storey, and have flat roofs.

THAT WE MAY SHARE WITH THEM THE LIFE ETERNAL[g] The altar in the northwest cenotaph is carved with representations of Patroclus and Achilles.

AND A HUMAN SOCIETY MORE RIGHTEOUS AND MORE LOVING THAN THOSE BRAVE MEN AND THEIR GENERATION KNEW[j][4] The altar in the southwest cenotaph is carved with a representation of "Death and the Soldier".

[4] The war memorial was designated as a listed building on 15 November 1972, and was graded at II* on 5 March 2010.

[4] Its classical styling, the colonnades in the form of Greek temples, and the carvings and inscriptions "draw comparison to battles in ancient Greece and slain warriors".

[4] Notes Tell Britain ye who mark this monumentFaithful to her we fell and rest contentThis is an adaptation of the epitaph on the Wagon Hill Cemetery Monument which commemorates troopers of the Imperial Light Horse who died in the Boer War, and was itself an adaptation of the Epitaph of Simonides on the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae.