War memorial at Lyndhurst, New Forest

Heritage listing

Details War memorial, unveiled 10 April 1921, said to be to a design concept by Alice Hargreaves (born Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll's inspiration for Alice in Wonderland) whose two sons are commemorated on the memorial. Additional names were added after the Second World War and Falklands conflict. MATERIALS: Cornish granite. DESCRIPTION: the memorial comprises a cairn constructed with granite boulders of varying sizes cemented to form a large, irregularly coursed splayed base on which rests a roughly finished tapering shaft topped by a Celtic cross. The memorial is enclosed by iron railings; an additional chain-link fence with rough-hewn uprights to each corner surrounds the railings. The principal west face of the memorial faces the Lyndhurst Park Hotel. The dates 1914-1918 are incised at the top of the cairn, beneath which is a plaque vertically set into the face of the cairn recording the 69 names of the fallen from the First World War, with the inscription 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE' beneath. A second plaque set horizontally at the feet of the first records 21 names of the Second World War dead and one from the Falkands conflict. On the rear face of the cairn is the inscription 'TO THE UNCONQUERED PEACE'. Listing NGR: SU3039208164

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.