The Cenotaph, Whitehall
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- Best time to go
- Year-round
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- wheelchair-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
The Cenotaph stands in the middle of Whitehall as the United Kingdom's principal national war memorial. Designed by Edwin Lutyens, it began as a temporary structure for a 1919 victory parade but was rebuilt permanently in Portland stone the following year in response to public feeling. Its severe form bears only the words The Glorious Dead and carved wreaths, its subtle curves designed so no line is truly straight. Each November national leaders lay wreaths here on Remembrance Sunday.
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