Springthorpe Memorial, Victorian memorial in Kew, Melbourne, Australia

The Springthorpe Memorial is a Greek-revival temple in Boroondara General Cemetery, Kew, built of dark marble columns, granite pediments and a domed roof of hundreds of ruby-red glass pieces set in radiating ironwork. Inside, Bertram Mackennal's marble group shows the deceased on a sarcophagus, an angel placing a wreath and a draped woman holding a lyre. Architect Harold Desbrowe-Annear designed the structure.

The memorial was commissioned in 1897 to honor a woman who died at age 30 while giving birth to their fourth child. The family chose artistic expressions and poetic inscriptions as a way to preserve memory through symbolic language rather than plain statements.

The four gables carry the words "Peace Evermore", "Life Evermore", "Light Evermore" and "Love Evermore", borrowed from a hymn in Dr Charles Strong's collection for the Australian Church. Bronze snake heads at each corner, designed by John Longstaff, stand for death, the underworld and resurrection, and for Springthorpe also medicine and Woman. Two stanzas of Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel" are inscribed on the north elevation.

The memorial stands inside Boroondara General Cemetery in Kew, listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. Its base is paved with red tiles bearing gold-lettered verses and is ringed by an iron picket balustrade, so visitors view the sculpture from outside the railing. In fine weather, sunlight through the ruby-glass dome casts a reddish glow on the marble figures.

Annie Springthorpe's name appears nowhere on the memorial. The closest identification is an inscription reading "My own true love, Pattern daughter perfect mother and ideal wife", followed by three dates: born 26 January 1867, married 26 January 1887, buried 26 January 1897. All three milestones fall on the same day of the year.