Bristol Cenotaph
Bristol Cenotaph is a war memorial at the north end of Magpie Park, in Bristol, erected in 1932. It is a Grade II listed building. The project was controversial, and the memorial was one of the last built by a major British city after the First World War, being completed after the Arch of Remembrance in Leicester in 1925, the Coventry War Memorial in 1927, and the Liverpool Cenotaph in 1930.- Type: Monument
- Description: war memorial in City of Bristol, England, UK
- Also known as: “Cenotaph” and “The Cenotaph”
- Address: Colston Avenue, Bristol, BS1 4ST
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Mary on the Quay and Bristol Beacon.
St Mary on the Quay
Church
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
St Mary on the Quay is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Bristol, England. It is situated on Colston Avenue, next to Beacon Tower in the centre of the city.
Bristol Beacon
Theater building
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bristol Beacon, previously Colston Hall, is a concert hall and Grade II listed building on Colston Street, Bristol, England. It is owned by Bristol City Council. Bristol Beacon is situated 440 feet west of Bristol Cenotaph.
Red Lodge Museum
Museum
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
The Red Lodge Museum is a historic house museum in Bristol, England. The original building was Tudor/Elizabethan, and construction began in 1579–1580, possibly to the design of Sebastiano Serlio. Red Lodge Museum is situated 730 feet west of Bristol Cenotaph.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bristol city centre and Broadmead.
Bristol city centre
Suburb
Bristol city centre is the commercial, cultural and business centre of Bristol, England. It is the area north of the New Cut of the River Avon, bounded by Clifton Wood and Clifton to the north-west, Kingsdown and Cotham to the north, and St Pauls, Lawrence Hill and St Phillip's Marsh to the east.
Broadmead
Suburb
Broadmead is a street in Bristol city centre in England, which has given its name to the principal shopping district of the city. It is part of Bristol Shopping Quarter.
Tyndall’s Park
Neighborhood
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tyndall's Park is an area of central Bristol, England. It lies north of Park Row and Queen's Road, east of Whiteladies Road and west of St Michael's Hill, between the districts of Clifton, Cotham and Kingsdown.
Bristol Cenotaph
- Categories: war memorial, building, and historic site
- Location: Bristol, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.45498° or 51° 27′ 18″ northLongitude
-2.59643° or 2° 35′ 47″ westOpen location code
9C3VFC33+XCOpenStreetMap ID
way 186170219OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q42888084
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Bristol Cenotaph” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “布里斯托和平紀念碑”
- Japanese: “ブリストル・セノタフ”
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