War Memorial in Queen's Park is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. War memorial.

War Memorial in Queen's Park

WRENN ID
slow-spindle-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Crewe and Nantwich MP: Connor Naismith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1984
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial in Queen's Park, Victoria Avenue, Crewe, CW2 7SE
OS grid reference
SJ 687 556
Coordinates
53.09696, -2.46845
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The War Memorial in Queen's Park is a South African War Memorial built in 1904. It is made of grey marble with a yellow sandstone cap and features a bronze figure. The memorial has a square moulded base and a chamfered plinth with recessed corners. There are bronze plaques on all four faces, topped by a bowtell pediment. The north-facing pediment displays the former arms of the Borough along with the motto "Never Behind" and the dates 1899-1902. Atop the memorial is a square tapering marble column with a sandstone Ionic cap that supports a near full-sized statue of a soldier, who is holding a rifle and dressed in the uniform of the period.

Local climate

War Memorial in Queen's Park receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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