Over Knutsford War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Over Knutsford War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- final-rotunda-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Over Knutsford War Memorial, Junction of Mobberley Road and Thorneyholme Drive, WA16 8EN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 756 784
- Coordinates
- 53.30288, -2.36615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Over Knutsford War Memorial is a sandstone structure approximately 3 meters tall, located in a small raised garden that overlooks the main road, about 60 meters southeast of the Church of St Cross, which is listed at Grade II*. The memorial features a fleur-de-lis cross with a moulded foot that rises from an octagonal shaft. The moulded foot is set on a square, tapering plinth, which stands on a three-stepped square base. The raised garden is surrounded by a stone wall, and there are steps leading from the pavement to the front of the memorial.
On the front face of the plinth, there is an inscription that reads: "IN GRATEFUL REMEMBERANCE OF THE MEN CONNECTED WITH THIS PARISH WHO DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914 – 1918. THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE." Above this inscription, a Greek cross is carved in low relief. The names of the men who fell in the First World War are incised on the two side faces of the memorial.
Local climate
Over Knutsford 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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