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Culture Secretary Maria Miller has announced plans to list hundreds of war memorials across the UK after handing the highest statutory protection to Liverpool's cenotaph
Designed by Lionel Budden and completed in 1930, the Liverpool cenotaph was originally given a grade II listing by English Heritage in 1952. However the memorial has today been upgraded to grade I - one of just three war memorials in the country to be granted the top heritage status.
The other two grade I-listed war memorials are in Victoria Park in Leicester and the cenotaph in Whitehall, both designed by Edwin Lutyens.
Miller went on to reveal further plans to list up to 500...