Tipton War Memorial
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431398
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Tipton War Memorial
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1431398
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Tipton War Memorial
- Location Description:
- Victoria Park, Tipton, Sandwell, West Midlands
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO9600391961
Summary
A borough war memorial, sited in Victoria Park, of c1921.
Reasons for Designation
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).
History
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.
Details
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.
Sources
Books and journals
Hodgkins, Keith, Tipton Through Time, (2011)
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 18 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/181896
War Memorials Register, accessed 10 November 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/72752
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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