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Latitude: 52.5255 / 52°31'31"N
Longitude: -2.0603 / 2°3'37"W
OS Eastings: 396003
OS Northings: 291961
OS Grid: SO960919
Mapcode National: GBR 4W8.31
Mapcode Global: VH9YM.7SN9
Plus Code: 9C4VGWGQ+6V
Entry Name: Tipton War Memorial
Listing Date: 3 December 2015
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1431398
ID on this website: 101431398
Location: Victoria Park, Dudley Port, Sandwell, West Midlands, DY4
County: Sandwell
Electoral Ward/Division: Tipton Green
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Tipton
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Tipton St Martin and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Memorial
A borough war memorial, sited in Victoria Park, of c1921.
A borough war memorial, sited in Victoria Park, of c 1921.
MATERIALS: the body of the memorial is of grey granite.
DESCRIPTION: It takes the form of an obelisk, standing on a square, tapered plinth with a stepped platform. the obelisk is plain and divided from the plinth by a large-scale cavetto moulding. The tapered sides of the polished plinth are inscribed in gilded Gothic script which reads: ‘Resurgam / +Laus Deo+’ (south side); ‘Our / Glorious / Dead’ (west side); ‘1914-1919 / The / Great War’ (north side) and ‘Honoured / for / Evermore’ (east side). On the north side on the top and riser of the upper step is inscribed, in Roman script: ‘AND / 1939-1945 / THE WORLD WAR’. The plinth rises above two steps and below this is a square platform.
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 10 November 2017.
The Tipton war memorial was unveiled by the Marquis of Cambridge on 24 August 1921. The names of the fallen were inscribed on two oak boards which were formerly placed in the borough library, sited at the south end of the park. The library moved to Owen House, Unity Walk in the early C21 and the boards are now housed there. Photographs of the unveiling ceremony show that the monument was originally surrounded by rockwork, with a flight of steps to one side.
Tipton War Memorial, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impacts of world events on this community, and the sacrifices it made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Architectural interest: as an accomplished and well-realised war memorial which takes the simple form of an obelisk;
* Group value: with the drinking fountain canopy (Grade II).
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