War Memorial in Coventry War Memorial Park

The War Memorial in Coventry War Memorial Park is an Art Deco style tower with Classical detailing, built between 1925 and 1927 to a design by Thomas Francis Tickner (1864-1924). The memorial stands as a group value monument. The tower occupies a square footprint and is situated on a circular platform, which was rebuilt in 2011, replacing the original octagonal form. The tower is constructed of reinforced concrete and faced with Portland stone, with a stepped platform in granite.

The tower is over 27 metres high, featuring heavy buttresses at each corner, rising in ten tiers. Large, decorative bronze doors, restored in 2004, provide access on both the east and west elevations to the Chamber of Silence inside the tower. Each door bears a full-height cross in relief, above which are the inscriptions '1914-1918' and '1939-1945'. The north and south elevations each display a plain cross set on a stepped corbel with guttae. On the north elevation, below the cross, is a circular wreath carved in stone, featuring the dates of both World Wars and the Coat of Arms of the City of Coventry. At the tower’s summit burns an Eternal Light. The steps surrounding the monument were replaced in 2011 and incorporate handrails, an access ramp, and a bronze circle engraved with excerpts from Laurence Binyon's poem "For the Fallen," along with six bronze discs commemorating Coventry servicemen awarded the Victoria Cross.

The Chamber of Silence inside the tower, which contains the Rolls of Honour, was not inspected.

Four Portland stone pedestals were built in 1928 to support floodlights, standing in line with the corners of the memorial tower. A cast iron power supply junction box with decorative patterns and hinges to its door is located behind the northern pedestal; this would have supplied electricity for the floodlighting and loudspeakers used on Armistice Sunday and/or other gatherings.