Bilston war memorial cross

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Reference WMO/147402

Address:

Memorial garden

Off Oxford Street

Bilston

Wolverhampton

WV14 7DT

England

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In 2018, WMT gave a grant towards this war memorial. As it has been a number of years since the grant was given, we would like an up-to-date condition survey and photographs to be added to this war memorial record. Can you help?

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: CWGC style Cross of Sacrifice
Lettering: Incised
About the memorial: The white Portland Stone cross with a simply elongated bronze sword applied to a slender shaft on a stepped plinth. Made by Messrs Dove & Co of London to a design by Sir Reginald Blomfield and unveiled in November 1921. It is set in gardens surrounded by wrought iron railings with the names of the fallen recorded on plaques set into a wall to the side. Although this looks like a Commonwelath War Graves memorial it is not in their care but is the local memorial for the community
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To the glory of God and in everlasting memory of the men of Bilston who died that we might live 1914-1918

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Bilston Town Centre Conservation Area

City of Wolverhampton Local List of Heritage Assets

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