Macclesfield War Memorial is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1977. A Twentieth Century War memorial. 3 related planning applications.
Macclesfield War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- first-merlon-moon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1977
- Type
- War memorial
- Period
- Twentieth Century
- Address
- Macclesfield War Memorial, Park Green, SK11 7NE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 919 732
- Coordinates
- 53.25599, -2.12238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Macclesfield War Memorial stands in Park Green, situated in front of the Grade II-listed Chapel Mill and surrounded by other Grade II-listed buildings. The monument is a circa 7-metre tapering ashlar pillar rising from a broad, three-stage base. An engaged column is set into the front of the base, supporting the principal dedicatory inscription and two of the bronze sculptures. Low, curved walls flank the base, terminating in tapering capped piers and creating a semi-circular forecourt.
The front of the pillar is ornamented with a Latin cross carved in low relief, while the remaining three sides, and the fronts of the matching wall piers, display bronze wreaths. Four freestanding piers, each bearing alphabetically ordered names of those commemorated from the First World War, are placed separately to the front in a square pattern.
The bronze statue group at the top of the pillar features a hooded female mourner with a bowed head, draped gown partly gathered in her right hand, and holding a wreath in her left. Below, a gassed young soldier lies on his back, depicted beneath Britannia, who offers a laurel wreath with her right hand and holds a furled flag in her left.
The principal inscription reads: “THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED IN HONOUR OF MACCLESFIELD MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR KING & EMPIRE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918. UNVEILED BY THE MAYOR OF MACCLESFIELD, ALDERMAN J. G. FROST J.P. SEPTEMBER 21ST 1921.” Further inscriptions below the bronze wreaths specify locations of service: FRANCE/BELGIUM/EGYPT, PALESTINE/MESOPOTAMIA/RUSSIA, and ITALY/MACEDONIA/DARDANELLES.
Later additions include bronze plaques affixed to the front faces of the low flanking walls, recording approximately 200 Second World War casualties, with the dedication “IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR 1939-1945.”
Local climate
Macclesfield War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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