Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Southampton Cenotaph/archive1
Any thoughts or edits? (I'm posting this one early because I'll be tied up with another project for almost a month starting on the 13th. I don't know when this will be promoted at FAC.) - Dank (push to talk) 23:45, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Southampton Cenotaph is a First World War memorial in Watts Park in Southampton, southern England. The memorial was the first of dozens designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens to be built in permanent form and it influenced his later designs, including The Cenotaph on Whitehall in London. It is a tapering, multi-tiered pylon featuring a recumbent figure of a soldier, a prominent cross, the town's coat of arms, and two lions. In front is an altar-like Stone of Remembrance. Lutyens' later cenotaphs, although similar in outline, were much more austere and featured almost no sculpture. By the beginning of the 21st century, the engravings on the memorial had deteriorated noticeably. They were supplemented by a series of glass panels which bear all the names from the cenotaph, as well as names from the Second World War and later conflicts. The panels were unveiled in 2011, and the memorial was upgraded in 2015 to a Grade I listed building. (Full article...)