Date Listed: 8 October 1981 English Heritage Building ID: 135957
OS Grid Reference: SU4191312412 OS Grid Coordinates: 441913,
112412 Latitude/Longitude: 50.9097, -1.4052 Location: Above Bar
Street, Southampton SO15 2BG Incorrect location/postcode? Submit
a correction! 983/1/260 WATTS PARK Also Known As: CENOTAPH, WEST
PARK A cenotaph of Portland stone designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens
(1869-1944), erected in Watts (West) Park in 1919, in memory of
Southampton's World War I Fallen. The cenotaph is in the form of
a five-tier tapering stone pylon to a platform topped with a
stone sarcophagus, on which is draped a recumbent effigy of a
dead soldier. Flanking it to the west is a stone of remembrance
and to the north and south flush with the eastern face, two
shorter single-tier pillars surmounted by fir cones (symbols of
eternity); the latter being joined to the pylon by a seat and a
wall. The pedestal of the cenotaph has recessed panels on the
north and south, where the 1793 names of the fallen are
inscribed. The sup