Utkinton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 2025. War memorial.
Utkinton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tattered-clay-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 2025
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Utkinton War Memorial, John Street, Tarporley, Utkinton and Cotebrook, CW6 0LP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 546 653
- Coordinates
- 53.18368, -2.6797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Utkinton War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1918, featuring a carved crucifix that forms a French-style Calvary shrine, with additions made for the Second World War in 1923. It is constructed from Eddisbury stone for the podium, ashlar sandstone for the plinth, and a teak crucifix.
Located prominently at the junction of John Street and Quarry Bank, opposite the former Utkinton Primitive Methodist Chapel, the memorial stands 3.2 meters high on a two-step podium made of blocks of Eddisbury Stone. The teak crucifix gives the memorial the appearance of a roadside Calvary shrine. It is set on a square sandstone plinth with chamfered upper edges. The carved figure of Christ looks up towards the heavens, beneath the lettering I R N I, which stands for "Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum" (Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews), and is protected by a carved timber canopy.
The east face of the plinth is recessed and features an inscription that reads: "GREATER·LOVE·HATH·NO·MAN / THAN·THIS. / THEY·GAVE·THEIR·HEARTS·TO·THEIR·HOMES / THEY·GAVE·THEIR·LIVES·TO·THEIR·COUNTRY / THEY·GAVE·THEIR·SOULS·TO·GOD." Below this dedication, six names are inscribed in two columns of three, flanking an intaglio carved cross set within a cusped recess. The south side of the memorial is inscribed: "DEDICATED·TO·THE·MEMORY / OF·THOSE·BRAVE·MEN / OF·UTKINTON·WHO·FELL / IN·THE·GREAT·WAR. / 1914-1919 / PEACE·SIGNED·AT·VERSAILLES / JUNE·28." The west face has no inscription, while the north side lists two names separated by the inscription 1939-1945; the upper name commemorates an individual who died during the First World War after the memorial was erected, and the lower name honors an individual who died during the Second World War.
Local climate
Utkinton War Memorial receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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