St Chad's Cheetham Hill First World War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 2023. Memorial cross.
St Chad's Cheetham Hill First World War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- grim-stone-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 2023
- Type
- Memorial cross
- Address
- St Chad's Cheetham Hill First World War Memorial Cross, St Chad's Churchyard, Cheetham Hill Road, M4 4EX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 841 995
- Coordinates
- 53.49221, -2.2402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Chad's Cheetham Hill First World War Memorial Cross is a memorial erected around 1920 to commemorate those who served in the First World War. It is made of grey granite and stands approximately two and a half metres tall. The memorial features a wheelhead cross on a pyramidal base with a slightly tapering plinth, facing west towards Cheetham Hill Road.
The cross is adorned with knotwork carving on its arms and has a central relief of Christ’s head crowned with thorns. The shaft of the cross includes stop-chamfered edges and a relief at its base depicting a winged Victory overcoming a serpent. The wheel of the cross has lead lettering that reads "IN HOC SIGNO VINCES," which translates to "in this sign you will conquer." The sides of the shaft feature slightly-recessed panels, also stop-chamfered.
The base of the memorial is smoothly dressed, except for the lower border, which is rock-faced. An inscription in lead capital letters on the base reads: "ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE PARISHIONERS AND OLD SCHOLARS OF ST CHAD'S WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 D. SHEAHAN, M. RECTOR." The plinth is also rock-faced.
Local climate
St Chad's Cheetham Hill First World War Memorial Cross 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 84% 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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