Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Obelisk
- District
- Sandwell
- Town
- Blackheath
- County
- West Midlands
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: C 1920
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 17490
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Current location
High St
Blackheath
Sandwell
West Midlands
England
OS Grid Ref: SO 970 860
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- THREE-STEPPED BASE SURMOUNTED BY PLINTH AND OBELISK. INSCRIPTION IN BLACK LETTERING ON THE SIDES OF THE PLINTH SMALL BRONZE WREATH ON THE 6 O'CLOCK FACE OF THE OBELISK
- Inscription
- 6 O'CLOCK FACE: THIS MONUMENT / IS ERECTED IN HONOUR / OF THE MEN OF THIS CHURCH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THEGREAT WAR / AND WHOSE NAMES ARE / RECORDED HEREON. / ALSO IN THANKFULNESS TO / ALMIGHTY GOD FOR THE / LIVES OF THOSE / WHO SERVED AND WERE / SPARED TO RETURN 3 AND 9 O'CLOCK FACE: (NAMES) 12 O'CLOCK FACE: 1939 - 1945 / (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adams, B
Birchill, D H
Bolton, E
Bolton, F
Briogewater, H
Carter, W
Deakin, A
Evans, B
Golding, H
Griffiths, S
See details for all 23 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 24
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 24
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 11
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Obelisk
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Obelisk
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Blackheath Central Methodist Chapel War Memorial
- WMO ID: 106450
- Condition: Good [last updated on 22-01-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- THE CHURCH
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