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A cenotaph is a tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group
of persons whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for
a person who has since been interred elsewhere. The word derives from the
Greek ?????????? (kenos, one meaning being "empty", and taphos, "tomb").
Although the vast majority of cenotaphs are erected in honour of
individuals, many of the best-known cenotaphs are instead dedicated to the
memories of groups of individuals, such as the war dead of one country or
empire.
The Cenotaph, London Probably the best-known cenotaph in the modern world
is the one that stands in Whitehall, London. It was designed by Sir Edwin
Lutyens, who conceived the idea from the name of a structure in Gertrude
Jekyll's garden, and constructed from Portland stone between 1919 and 1920
by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts. It replaced Lutyen's identical
wood-and-plaster cenotaph erected in 1919 for the Alli
