Crowton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 2015. War memorial.
Crowton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- pitched-pillar-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Crowton War Memorial, Junction of Ainsworth Road and Kingsley Road, CW8 2RN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 578 745
- Coordinates
- 53.26638, -2.63369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crowton War Memorial is a stone structure featuring a Celtic wheel-head cross that rises from a square, tapering shaft. The front face of the wheel-head is decorated with three hemispherical bosses and intricate carved interlace patterns. At the base of the shaft, on the front side, there is a panel of carved interlace. The shaft itself is supported by a four-stage square plinth, which sits on a square base. Each corner of the base has low, square stone pillars that hold up black-painted iron rails.
On the front face of the shaft, the main inscription reads: "IN GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM THIS VILLAGE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR KING & COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WARS." The front face of the plinth includes the dates 1914 – 1918 followed by four names, and 1939 – 1945 followed by two names. All inscriptions are incised and painted black.
The memorial is located in a small grassed area that is enclosed by a hedge. To the left of the memorial, there is a wooden frame displaying several Best Kept Village Award plaques, and a flagpole is positioned in the north-west corner of the enclosure. Eight low posts connected by a chain separate the enclosure from the pavement. The frame, plaques, flagpole, and low fence are not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Crowton War Memorial receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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