Neston War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 2018. War memorial.
Neston War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- stark-corridor-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Neston War Memorial, The Churchyard, Church of St Mary and St Helen, High Street, Ellesmere Port, CH64 9UB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 291 774
- Coordinates
- 53.28939, -3.06413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Neston War Memorial is situated within a gated and railed enclosure in the north-east corner of the churchyard of the Church of St Mary and St Helen, which is listed at Grade II*. The memorial stands approximately 5 meters tall and features a wheel-head cross carved from sandstone. The cross rises from a tapering plinth that sits on a three-stepped square base. The cross head is adorned with carved decorations, including a crown of thorns around the wheel face and rose buds on the cross arms. The front face of the cross shaft displays intricately carved intertwining foliage patterns, including oak leaves.
The main dedicatory inscription, incised into the front face of the plinth, reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN IMPERISHABLE MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ (WHOSE NAMES ARE RECORDED/ IN THE CHURCH) WHO LAID DOWN/ THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1919/ THEIR BODIES ARE BURIED IN PEACE/ BUT THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE."
A later inscription on the south-eastern face of the plinth commemorates "ALSO/ OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1939 – 1945."
Additionally, a plaque located behind the south-eastern side of the memorial enclosure honors a serviceman who died during the Falklands conflict in 1982 on the ship HMS Coventry.
Local climate
Neston War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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