Knutsford Centennial War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 2019. Memorial.
Knutsford Centennial War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- final-loft-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 2019
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Knutsford Centennial War Memorial, Toft Road, WA16 0PB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 751 783
- Coordinates
- 53.30192, -2.37385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Knutsford Centennial War Memorial is a private memorial statue created in 1919. It was relocated in the 1930s and again in 1977, before being installed on its current black granite plinth in 2018. The statue was designed and sculpted by Sir William Hamo Thornycroft and cast by the Albion Art Foundry Ltd.
The life-size bronze figure stands at 1.72 meters tall and depicts Haron Baronian in military service dress, advancing with his rifle slung over his right shoulder. He is surveying the landscape, with his left hand raised to shade his eyes. The front face of the bronze base is inscribed with the words "PRO PATRIA." The left face bears the inscription "HARON BARONIAN/ KILLED IN ACTION/ IN MESOPOTAMIA/ 1917." The right face is signed "HAMO THORNYCROFT RA/ SC 1918," while the rear face is inscribed with "ALBION ART FOUNDRY LTD/ PARSONS GREEN/ SW."
The statue is set on a two-stepped black granite plinth, which dates from 2018 and features additional war memorial inscriptions.
Local climate
Knutsford Centennial War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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