War Memorial, St Mary's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 2013. War memorial.
War Memorial, St Mary's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- old-marble-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury South MP: Christian Wakeford (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 2013
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, St Mary's Churchyard, Church Lane, Prestwich, Greater Manchester
- OS grid reference
- SD 811 036
- Coordinates
- 53.52957, -2.28625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, located in the churchyard of St Mary's, was erected in 1921 by Isaac Taylor of Taylor & Young to commemorate those who served in the First World War, with dates for the Second World War added later. It features a Portland stone cross mounted on a stepped octagonal plinth, which is based on Sir Reginald Blomfield's Cross of Sacrifice. The cross has a tapering shape and a stepped base, with a bronze sword attached to the front (east) face.
The inscriptions on the memorial are significantly weathered, but a carved band around the top of the base originally read, "In loving and thankful memory of the men of this Parish who died in the Great War." An additional inscription on the east face, which is now illegible, originally stated, "The Souls of the Righteous are in the hands of God." The west face of the base displays the carved dates "1914-1919" and "1939-45" in stylised numerals. The memorial is situated immediately to the south-west of the churchyard's Grade II listed entrance and to the north-east of the Grade I listed St Mary's Church.
Local climate
War Memorial, St Mary's Churchyard sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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