Gawsworth War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 2018. War memorial.
Gawsworth War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- broken-pediment-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SJ 888 704
- Coordinates
- 53.23092, -2.16881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gawsworth War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, with additions for the Second World War and some late 20th-century alterations.
It is located at the junction of two roads, just north of a medieval preaching cross, which is a scheduled monument. The memorial features an octagonal timber cross that stands approximately 2 meters tall, with a carved figure of Jesus and an ‘INRI’ plaque above. The cross is topped with a duo-pitched plank roof that has ridge copper flashing, and the arms of the cross have undercut hollow chamfers at their ends.
The memorial is set on a battered stone plinth that is about 1 meter square and 1 meter tall. The inscription on the north-facing side reads: "THE SOULS/ OF THE RIGHTEOUS/ ARE IN THE HAND OF/ GOD/ AND THERE SHALL NO/ TORMENT TOUCH THEM." The upper west face bears the inscription "1914-1919/ R.I.P/ (NAMES, six, in alphabetical order)," followed by an additional inscription for the Second World War reading "1939 – 1945/ (NAMES, three, in alphabetical order, with ranks for two matching names)."
This information is also repeated on the east face, which lists five names from the First World War and three from the Second. The south-facing inscription states: "GAWSWORTH/ PEOPLE. SET . UP/ THIS . CALVARY/ IN . THE . YEAR . OF/ GOD’S . INCARNATION/ 1920/ IN . MEMORY . OF . THEIR . LADS/ WHO . GAVE . THEIR . LIVES/ IN . THE . WAR . OF/ 1914 – 1919."
Local climate
Gawsworth War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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