LNWR and LMS Crewe Tranship Shed War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 2020. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
LNWR and LMS Crewe Tranship Shed War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- iron-steel-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich MP: Connor Naismith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- LNWR and LMS Crewe Tranship Shed War Memorial, Christ Church, Prince Albert Street, CW1 2DF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 706 556
- Coordinates
- 53.0969, -2.43995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The LNWR and LMS Crewe Tranship Shed War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1925, with additions for the Second World War, and was relocated in 1999. It is made of buff sandstone and stands on stone flags within the footprint of the former Christ Church, which is also a grade II-listed building.
The memorial features a stone slab topped with a shallow pyramidal capital over a dentilled cornice, and it has a moulded three-stepped foot, resting on a single square step. The principal (south) face of the memorial includes labels in the upper corners, carved with flowers in low relief, above a laurel wreath also carved in relief. Below this, an incised inscription reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD,/ AND TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY/ OF THE FOLLOWING MEN/ FROM THE CREWE TRANSHIP SHED,/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918./ (20 NAMES)/ 1939 – 1945/ (5 NAMES)."
The sides of the slab each feature a cross in low relief.
Local climate
LNWR and LMS Crewe Tranship Shed War Memorial receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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