Monuments in St George's Plateau

All monuments and structures described below are listed Grade II. 

Four recumbent stone lions, resting on individual plinths, mark the formal entrance from Lime Street onto the Plateau. They were designed in 1855 by C. R. Cockerell and carved by W. G. Nicholl. 

Public monuments continued to be added to the forum developing around St George's Hall. The equestrian statue of Prince Albert erected in 1866 after his death in 1861 was complemented in 1870 by a similar equestrian statue of Queen Victoria. Both are bronzes by Thomas Thornycroft. They are symmetrically placed on either side of the Hall's east portico. 

In 1883 a bronze statue of Tory Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Beaconsfield, was added. The work of C. B. Birch, it now stands on the east portico of the Hall. Another bronze figure by Birch, Major-General Earle, native of Liverpool and leader of British Imperial campaigns in India and Africa was erected in 1887. 

Finally a austerely impressive memorial, the cenotaph by Lionel Budden, to the fallen of the First World War, a large rectangular block of stone with bronze relief panels of marching and mourning soldiers and civilians, was placed behind the Plateau's bronze lions and unveiled in 1930.