Talk:Southend-on-Sea War Memorial

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Southend-on-Sea War Memorial was originally designed as a cenotaph but was changed to an obelisk?

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Lutyens

HJ Mitchell - You don’t get much, I’m afraid:

“In the gardens opposite Clifftown Parade, Lutyens’s War Memorial, 1920, a Portland stone obelisk, its base and pedestal remarkably subtly proportioned;”

Essex, Bettley & Pevsner, 2007, p=698, Yale, isbn=978 0 300 11614 4 KJP1 (talk) 05:50, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@KJP1 Thanks very much! Short but sweet. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:37, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]