ICI War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Stockton-on-Tees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 2016. War memorial.
ICI War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tenth-threshold-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Constituency
- Stockton North MP: Chris McDonald (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- ICI War Memorial, Garden of Remembrance, Station Road, Billingham, Cleveland, TS32 1AE
- OS grid reference
- NZ 456 227
- Coordinates
- 54.59767, -1.2955
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ICI War Memorial is a war memorial commemorating the employees of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd (ICI) who died during the Second World War. It was erected in 1949, designed by sculptor Gilbert Bayes RBS, with plaques produced by Morris Singer and Company Limited.
Constructed from Portland stone, the memorial features four bronze plaques, a granite base and pedestal, and a low-stepped paving slab plinth. The memorial has a rectangular plan and faces northeast towards Station Road.
Standing 4.26 meters tall, the cenotaph is designed in an Art Nouveau style and is mounted on a low stepped plinth. The top of the shaft is formed by a stylised tomb set on a plinth with a carved garland, supported by inverted consul bracket ends. The ICI logo, flanked by swags, is carved in half-relief on the front and rear faces of the shaft, with the dates 1939-1945 inscribed lower on the front face and "BILLINGHAM" on the rear. The four bronze plaques feature lettering raised in Roman capitals; the front plaque reads: "1939 1945 / IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES / LIMITED / TO THE PROUD MEMORY / OF THE EMPLOYEES OF BILLINGHAM / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES / IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR," accompanied by a wreath in relief. The rear plaque lists 88 names in three columns, while the right side plaque records 56 names, and the left plaque records 57 names.
Local climate
ICI War Memorial receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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