St John's Church War Memorial, Smallbridge is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 2018. War memorial.
St John's Church War Memorial, Smallbridge
- WRENN ID
- under-tin-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- St John's Church War Memorial, Smallbridge, Vicarage Drive, Halifax Road, OL16 2QJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 913 152
- Coordinates
- 53.63385, -2.13206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's Church War Memorial is a First World War memorial, built around 1920, with additions for the Second World War. It is situated in front of the north-west elevation of the Grade II-listed Church of St John the Baptist, at the end of the path from the Halifax Road entrance to the churchyard.
The memorial features a sandstone cross set on a square plinth with sloping shoulders and a two-stepped base. The north-west face of the cross is adorned with sculpted foliate ornamentation, featuring 'ihs' at the center and bordered by sculpted plaitwork. Names of the fallen are inscribed on inset panels on three sides of the plinth, which are also edged with similar sculpted ropework.
At the base of the cross, the inscription reads IN/ LOVING MEMORY/ OF/, followed by names on the plinth below. The top step of the base carries the inscription OBEDIENT EVEN UNTO DEATH/ PRO PATRIA 1914 – 18/ ERECTED WITH SANCTUARY AND SIDE-CHAPEL/ MEMORIALS. BY THEIR FRIENDS/ OF ST JOHN’S SMALLBRIDGE.
On the south-east face of the plinth, there are four additional names, along with Second World War additions inscribed as ALSO IN MEMORY OF/ THE FOLLOWING WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945/ (EIGHT NAMES).
The memorial is surrounded by a low bronze railing.
Local climate
St John's Church War Memorial, Smallbridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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