1913 – Design for King Edward VII Memorial, Ottawa, Canada
Sculptor: Walter Allward
Never completed, the construction probably cancelled by the First World War.
1916 – Lady Lever Memorial Church, Port Sunlight, Cheshire
Architect: William Owen & Segar Owen
Perspective view,
1925 – Victor Emmanuel Monument (Il Vittoriano), Rome, Italy
Architect: Giuseppe Sacconi
A monument entitled to Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoia,
1945 – Proposed Davis Memorial, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
Architect: Raymond McGrath, Office of Public Works
Unconstructed design for a memorial for Thomas Davis in St.
1950 – Cenotaph, Leinster Lawn, Merrion Square, Dublin
Architect: Raymond McGrath & Frank du Berry, Office of Public Works
A tapering granite obelisk 18.3 metres in height and topped with a gilt bronze flame,
1958 – Memorial Jose Marti, Havana, Cuba
Architect: Enrique Luis Varela
The 109m tower,
1960 – Padrào dos Descobrimentos, Lisbon, Portugal
Architect: Cottinelli Telmo
The Padrao dos Descobrimentos was completed as a model for the Portuguese world exhibition and erected on the bank of the Tagus in its current form in 1960.
How these men will honour the 7 July dead in this royal corner of London
If you wanted to trace the formal history of the British public memorial from Victorian times to the present day,
