Facing the garden is a platform with the following inscription:  THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE WE LIVE ONLY AS WE SAFEGUARD THE IDEALS FOR WHICH THEY DIED FREEDOM JUSTICE MERCY SO LET US LIVE THAT WE MAY SHARE WITH THEM THE LIFE ETERNAL  The altar in the northwest cenotaph is carved with representations of Patroclus and Achilles. On the wall is a tablet inscribed with:  FOR THE SACRED CAUSE OF JUSTICE On the side of the entablature facing the obelisk is the inscription:  FAITHFUL TO HER WE FELL AND REST CONTENT  and on the side facing the garden is:  TO FAMOUS MEN ALL EARTH IS SEPULCHRE  The panel on the northwest side of the colonnade depicts Britannia offering a tribute to the dead and represents "Mourning". On the northeast side is a panel inscribed:  REMEMBER THAT THE MEN WHOSE NAMES LIVE ON THESE WALLS DIED IN YOUTH OR PRIME THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS MIGHT INHERIT A HAPPIER WORLD AND A HUMAN SOCIETY MORE RIGHTEOUS AND MORE LOVING THAN THOSE BRAVE MEN AND THEIR GENERATION KNEW  The altar in the southwest cenotaph is carved with a representation of "Death and the Soldier". There are two inscribed tablets. One reads:  ALL THAT THEY HAD THEY GAVE  and the other is inscribed with:  THEIR NAME LIVETH  Outside each colonnade is a Memorial Garden. In the centre of each is a long rectangular Pool of Remembrance containing three fountains. The pool is surrounded by flat copings in Portland stone, and at the colonnade end of the pool is a low curved parapet with a spout in the form of a lion's head. The pool is flanked by lawns, outside which is balustrading in Portland stone. The war memorial was designated as a listed building on 15 November 1972, and was graded at II* on 5 March 2010. Grade II* listing is granted to "particularly important buildings of more than special interest". In the reasons given for listing at this grade it is stated that the memorial forms "a highly striking, powerful and reverential war memorial assemblage" and it provides "a sense of dignity and atmosphere within the town centre". Its classical styling, the colonnades in the form of Greek temples, and the carvings and inscriptions "draw comparison to battles in ancient Greece and slain warriors".