Shipley War Memorial

First World War memorial, 1921, by Messrs Wright and Son, with Second World War additions

MATERIALS: Creetown granite

PLAN: octagonal

DESCRIPTION: Shipley was memorial is located on the site of a former bandstand; it stands on a raised mound laid with flower beds and is enclosed within octagonal-plan kerbing (re-used from the bandstand structure). The memorial consists of a Latin cross that has capped terminals and a stylised sword in relief, mounted on a slender tapering shaft. It has a moulded capital and base, which rises from an octagonal-plan plinth that stands on a three-stepped base. The south face of the plinth has inset metal lettering that reads TO THE/ MEMORY OF/ OUR GLORIOUS/ DEAD, with 1914 - 1919 and 1939 - 1945, inscribed respectively on the south-west and south-east faces of the plinth.