Monuments and Memorials in Northern Ireland - Cenotaph, UK National Inventory of War Memorials, Reconciliation, Titanic Memorial (Paperback)

Chapters: Cenotaph, Uk National Inventory of War Memorials, Reconciliation, Titanic Memorial. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A cenotaph is a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been interred elsewhere. The word derives from the Greek (kenos, one meaning being "empty," and taphos, "tomb"). Although the vast majority of cenotaphs are erected in honour of individuals, many of the best-known cenotaphs are instead dedicated to the memories of groups of individuals, such as the war dead of one country or empire. The Cenotaph, LondonProbably the best-known cenotaph in the modern world is the one that stands in Whitehall, London at ) ). It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, who conceived the idea from the name of a structure in Gertrude Jekyll's garden, and constructed from Portland stone between 1919 and 1920 by Holland, Hannen