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The memorial was built as a complement to the adjoining First World War memorial by Lutyens unveiled in 1928. The walls are set with bronze panels recalling the names of those who have no grave but the sea. The walls are set in a sunken garden, lined with bronze panels on their inner face and at spaced intervals set with seven stone sculptured allegorical figures representing the seven seas. At the centre of this garden, mainly lawn, is a 'pool' of bronze engraved as a Mariners' compass and set to magnetic north. Around its edge stone paviours and oak seats form part of the composition. Steps ascend to the earlier war memorial, between pylons carved with above life-size figures of an officer and seaman of the merchant service. The memorial commemorates all merchant seamen who served in ships registered in ports of the British commonwealth or in ships on charter to these governments, who lost their lives as a result of enemy action and who have no known grave.
Title
Tower Hill Memorial: Second World War Extension
Date
1952–1955
Medium
Portland stone, bronze & stone
Accession number
EC3N_AM_S660
Acquisition method
commissioned by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission
Work type
War memorial
Owner
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Custodian
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II* (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
5th November 1955
Listing date
15/04/98
Access
at all times
Inscription description
between the two figures and the 1914-18 memorial a stone of remembrance on a stepped plinth with a dedicatory inscription: THE TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND OF THE MERCHANT NAVY AND FISHING FLEETS / WHOSE NAMES ARE HONOURED ON THE WALLS OF THIS GARDEN / GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY / AND HAVE NO GRAVE BUT THE SEA