Barnston Memorial is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1984. Memorial. 1 related planning application.
Barnston Memorial
- WRENN ID
- dusted-attic-magpie
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Barnston Memorial, Churton Road, Farndon, CH3 6QP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 413 551
- Coordinates
- 53.09055, -2.87706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barnston Memorial is a Grade II* listed obelisk located on Churton Road in Farndon, dating from around 1858. It is slender and made of yellow sandstone, featuring decayed and partly removed cast iron railings. The base of the obelisk shaft and the plinth have concave mouldings that enhance its slender appearance. At the corners of the plinth, there are four lions in a crouching position, symbolically mourning. Three quadrants of the heavy funerary rail remain intact between the lions.
On the front of the plinth, the name "BARNSTON" is carved in plain projecting capitals above a circular plaque adorned with a wreath. The left side of the memorial bears an inscription that reads: "ERECTED IN MEMORY OF ROGER BARNSTON ESQ OF CREWE HILL, MAJOR AND BREVET LIEUT.COLONEL OF HER MAJESTY'S 90TH LIGHT INFANTRY, CB AND KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR AND OF THE ORDER OF MEJDEDIE BY HIS TENANTS AND FRIENDS. HE SERVED IN THE CRIMEAN WAR FROM THE 5TH DECEMBER 1854 AND WAS PRESENT AT THE SIEGE AND FALL OF SEBASTOPOL AND ALSO IN THE INDIAN MUTINY CAMPAIGN IN 1857 IN WHICH HE SUFFERED A SEVERE WOUND WHILE GALLANTLY LEADING AN ASSAULT AT THE RELIEF OF LUCK NOW ON THE 18TH NOVEMBER 1857 FROM THE EFFECTS OF WHICH HE DIED AT CAWNPORE ON THE 23RD DECEMBER 1857, AGED 31 YEARS, AND WAS INTERRED IN THE MILITARY CEMETERY OF THAT STATION."
Local climate
Barnston Memorial receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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