War Memorial, Victoria Park is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
War Memorial, Victoria Park
- WRENN ID
- patient-footing-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- Smethwick MP: Gurinder Singh Josan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Victoria Park, High Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 023 880
- Coordinates
- 52.49055, -1.96724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial in Victoria Park is a First World War memorial dating from around 1920. It is constructed from granite and bronze. The memorial features a tapering column with a square plan and re-entrant corners, which is raised on steps that splay outwards at the base. Above the column is a moulded cornice topped with a cap that has a flaming urn. On the side facing the road, there is a carved wreath.
Attached to the front of the column is a bronze statue of a woman holding an olive branch, which sits on a base with a curved front. A plaque on the base is inscribed with the words: "Wait but for the yield of all our toil and God shall not forget." On the left and right sides of the base, there are bronze relief panels; the left panel depicts an infantry scene, while the right panel shows ships with biplanes flying overhead.
Local climate
War Memorial, Victoria Park receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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