Coventry War Memorial

The committee determined that the creation of a public park would be a suitable memorial, and raised £31,000 to acquire a site at Stivichall on the south side of the city from Hon Alexander Frederick Gregory, son of Samuel Hood-Tibbits, 3rd Viscount Hood, on the high ground between the River Sherbourne and the River Sowe.

Tickner died in 1924, soon after his design was selected, but another local architect Thomas Reginald John Meakin oversaw the construction.

It was built using reinforced concrete and clad with Portland stone, in Art Deco style with Classical details.

The corners are heavily buttressed and step back in ten tiers with blunt pinnacles, reaching a summit which has an eternal light.

Openings on the east and west elevations provide access to a chamber within, with large bronze doors added in 1928 which bear relief sculptures of a cross and the dates "1914-1918" and "1939-1945".

The party accompanying Earl Haig included the Mayor of Coventry, as well as Mrs E Bench whose four sons were killed in the war, and Corporal Hutt VC.