Withers and Henderson Memorial, High Street, Holywood, County Down

A memorial of Giffnock sandstone erected c.1873 in High Victorian Gothic style, prominently located directly to W of Holywood Priory and commemorating the lives of James Withers and Edwin Henderson, drowned 1873. The memorial is square-plan on a stepped ashlar base, flanked by offset buttresses topped by gableted cusped pinnacles and pointed finials. Each face rises to a pointy gable with star carving to apex and roll moulded ridge, rising to a steep corbelled stone roof. Each face has a pointed-arched recess with rope-moulded head supported on red polished granite colonettes with foliated capitals. Main face to west has an anchor carved into the tympanum, and the colonettes flank a marble tablet bearing a memorial inscription. Other faces have a blank tympanum and marble tablet. The memorial is set at the junction of Bangor Road and Priory Park, surrounded by a civic space consisting of paved footpath and flowerbeds. Material: Giffnock sandstone and red polished granite