North Eastern Railway Company War Memorial

City of York, United Kingdom

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Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled in York on 14 June 1924 by Field Marshal Lord Plumer, the North Eastern Railway War Memorial commemorates employees of the North Eastern Railway killed during the First World War. The NER board commissioned Lutyens in 1920 with a substantial £20,000 budget to create the memorial, which generated initial controversy over its proximity to York's city walls and its relationship to the city's own war memorial scheme. Lutyens resolved these tensions by relocating the design away from the walls. The finished monument comprises a 54-foot slate and Portland limestone obelisk rising from a three-sided screen wall that encloses his characteristic Stone of Remembrance. The wall is ornamented with carved swags and wreaths, including a wreath framing the NER's coat of arms at the obelisk's base. Now Grade II* listed, it forms part of the national collection of Lutyens' war memorials.