Bury Cemetery War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 2018. War memorial.
Bury Cemetery War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- third-gutter-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury North MP: Mr James Frith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SD 808 090
- Coordinates
- 53.57776, -2.29097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bury Cemetery War Memorial is a First World War memorial from the 1920s, designed in the style of Sir Reginald Blomfield’s ‘Cross of Sacrifice’. It is made of yellow sandstone and bronze and has an octagonal plan.
The memorial is prominently located in an open green space at the intersection of two major paths near the cemetery gates. It closely follows Blomfield’s 1918 design, with both the cross and base having an octagonal shape. The memorial stands approximately 4 meters tall, featuring a shaft with slight entasis, and both the shaft and arms taper gently towards lipped, flat ends. The principal face, facing south-west, displays a reversed bronze sword with an ogee pommel and trefoil guard. The shaft flares at the base, leading to a short foot.
The cross is set on a two-stepped base that is about 1.5 meters high. The upper section has a flat top and a small plinth, while the lower section features an overhanging weathered top. The front face of the upper base is inscribed with the words:
TO THE/ HONOURED MEMORY/ OF THOSE SAILORS/ AND SOLDIERS WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918 AND WHO/ LIE BURIED IN/ THIS CEMETERY
The plinth of the upper section is inscribed on five faces with:
THEIR/ NAME/ LIVETH/ FOR/ EVERMORE
The entire memorial is set on an octagonal area of paving made from the same stone, which ramps up at the junction with the base, integrating into the overall design.
Local climate
Bury Cemetery War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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