Rochdale Cenotaph is a First World War memorial located on the Esplanade in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in the north west of England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial is one of seven in England based on his Cenotaph on Whitehall in London and is one of his more ambitious designs. It was unveiled in 1922 and consists of a 10m high pylon topped by a recumbent effigy of a soldier, along with Lutyens' characteristic Stone of Remembrance.
A public in meeting in February 1919 established a consensus for both a monumental memorial and a fund for the families of wounded servicemen, and Lutyens was appointed to design the monument. His first design, for a bridge over the River Roch, was abandoned after a local dignitary purchased a plot of land adjacent to the Town Hall and donated it for use for a war memorial. Lutyens revised his design for the new site and Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby unveiled the memorial on 26 November 1922. The memorial today is a Grade I listed building, having been upgraded in 2015 when Lutyens' war memorials were declared a "national collection" and all were granted listed building status or had their listing renewed.