ⓘWhat do the D1–D5 confidence tiers mean?›
- D1A single attributed public source (museum, council, Historic England, CWGC, mapping data).
- D2Two or more independent public sources corroborate the same facts.
- D3A named coordinator or local reviewer has confirmed the public-source account.
- D4A named observer has personally visited and documented the site — photographs, inscriptions, condition.
- D5An archive or institution has provided written documentation supporting the entry.
A higher tier means more corroborating evidence, not automatic historical certainty. The Discovery layer does not replace archival verification.
The Manchester Cenotaph stands in St Peter's Square in the city centre. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens — architect of the Whitehall Cenotaph — and unveiled in 1924 as a memorial to the city's dead of the First World War, it is a Grade II* listed war memorial. It was relocated a short distance to its present position in 2014, and later inscriptions commemorate the dead of the Second World War.
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