- Type of Memorial
- Cenotaph
- WMR Reference Number
- 2282
- Description
- An elaborately carved marble cenotaph which sits in the centre of the entrance to the War Memorial Chapel (WMR 15157) on a two step black marble plinth, with a saw-tooth black and white border decorating the meeting point of the steps. Crowned shields decorate the centre of the four sides of the structure, with those at the front and rear supported by kneeling angels, and carrying the word PAX, and those to the sides a cross. Gothic arches and carvings sit above and to the sides of them. Carved seated lions decorated the corners and the fronts of its corniced base.
On top of the cenotaph sits a cast bronze glazed cabinet within which is housed the Illuminated Roll of Honour execute in calligraphy which records the 40,000 fallen of the Great War from Liverpool and District. A cast angel kneels at each of the corners of the cabinet, facing inwards, and at the back of each, facing outwards, kneels a representation of a serviceman - Navy, Army, Air Force, and Mercantile Marine.
The front of the book was signed by King George V when the Chapel was Dedicated.
- Inscription
- Left page of Roll of Honour: THE ROLL OF / HONOUR / OF THE MEN OF / LIVERPOOL / AND DISTRICT / WHO LAID DOWN / THEIR LIVES IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919
Right page of Roll of Honour: THEY WHOM THIS / VOLUME / COMMEMORATES / were numbered among those / who, at the call of king and / Country, left all that was dear / to them, endured hardness, faced danger and / finally passed out of the sight of men by the / path of duty and self sacrifice, giving up their / own lives that others might live in freedom. / Let those who come after see to it / that their name be not forgotten. / George R. J.