New Barnet (East Barnet Valley) War Memorial

The New Barnet (East Barnet Valley) war memorial was erected in 1921, designed by Newbury Abbot Trent ARA. It stands on a triangular enclosure, now a traffic island, surrounded by a low stock brick wall with granite copings. The wall is taller on the northern side due to the sloping ground. Within the wall is a levelled triangular courtyard with a gravel surface, accessed through an entrance on the western side, and a square stone-lined flower border. Originally, cast iron railings were supported by wrought-iron struts mounted on engaged granite piers that project from the wall line, with flower borders in the spaces between.

The memorial itself is a 5.18-metre tall obelisk of Portland stone, set on a tall pedestal with recessed corners, a plain plinth, and a stepped Portland stone podium raised on a concrete base. Stone steps lead to the podium on the western side. A bronze allegorical figure of ‘winged victory’, holding a palm leaf and standing on a globe supported by four fish, surmounts the obelisk, adding a further 2.43 metres to the monument’s height. A carved relief of a seated lion beneath a rising sun is on the western side, with the inscription ‘AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM’ carved below. The dates 1914-1918 are carved on the base of the column's eastern side, and 1939-1945 on the plinth.

Slate panels attached to all four sides of the pedestal list the surnames and initials of the 278 individuals from the First World War who fell; these are highlighted with gold-coloured paint. Notably, the memorial includes the name of Amy Alice Victoria Goldsmith, who died in 1919 aged 32 while serving as a staff nurse of the Territorial Force Nursing Service near Marseilles. An additional panel on the eastern side of the memorial lists the 136 men killed during the Second World War.