The City and County of London Troops War Memorial

This war memorial was erected in 1920 and designed by Sir Aston Webb, with sculpture by Alfred Drury. Constructed primarily of Portland stone, with a granite base and bronze statuary, it stands approximately 7.5 metres high. The memorial consists of a finely detailed Portland stone pier with two rounded buttress plinths at its base. Each buttress supports a life-sized bronze statue of a soldier.

The front face of the central pier features a carved relief of the coat of arms of the City of London, above three dedicatory inscriptions commemorating the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of London who served in the First World War (1914-1919). A later inscription, added after 1945 to acknowledge those who served in the Second World War (1939-1945), replaced the original record. A bronze plaque below the main inscription details that the memorial was raised by public subscription in 1919, during the mayoralty of Colonel Sir Horace Brooks Marshall. Around the base, two rows of bronze pegs, ornamented with crossed rifles, provide chains for wreath placement. The rear of the pier displays the coat of arms of the County of London, accompanied by a list of the commemorated units. The inscriptions on the front and rear are in attached metal lettering, with some lettering flush with the stonework and some projecting.

Flanking the central pier, carvings in low relief depict three standards, each topped with a wreathed crown and a lion statant guardant. A bronze statue of a Royal Artilleryman, standing at ease with a rifle in his right hand, stands on the north buttress. The south buttress supports a corresponding bronze statue of a Royal Fusilier, standing easy with both hands resting on his rifle. At the top of the pier, a moulded stone pedestal supports a bronze lion holding a shield, which is ornamented with a relief of St George slaying a dragon, with the inscription ST GEORGE FOR ENGLAND.