Tipton War Memorial

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.