1923 War Memorial, Castle Gardens, Castle Street, Lisburn, County Antrim

Free-standing figurative bronze statue on two stage limestone plinth with bronze plaques, erected 1923. Located on the south side of Castle Street, facing north, set in a semi-circular railed site beside Castle Gardens. Life-sized cast bronze winged female statue yielding a sword in right hand, wreath in left hand and balancing on one foot on a sphere (Victory). Square-plan painted stone two stage classical plinth with the upper stage clad in a rectangular bronze plaque to each side with a bronze egg-and-dart course at the base of the plaques, bronze dolphins to the lower corners and winged bronze infant heads to the upper corners. A deep moulding below rests on a slightly large stone plinth base. Plaque to north reads: “TO THE, GLORIOUS MEMORY, OF THE, MEN AND WOMEN, OF LISBURN, WHO GAVE, THEIR LIVES, IN TWO WARS, 1914-18. 1939-45”, with the stone plinth base inscribed with the words ‘SOMME’ and ‘THIEPVAL’ Plaque to east lists the names of fallen soldiers with a further list to the plinth base. Plaque to south lists the names of fallen soldiers with the words ‘MESSINES’ and ‘YPRES’ inscribed on the stone plinth base. Plaque to west also lists the names of fallen soldiers with a further list to the plinth base. Monument is set on a stepped Travertine stone podium set within recently laid granite setts enclosed to Castle Gardens by spear-headed iron railings on stone plinth wall with pair of steel street lights having copper lanterns.