Wardle War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 2016. War memorial.
Wardle War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-pavement-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Wardle War Memorial, Memorial Gardens, Wardle Road, OL12 9JA
- OS grid reference
- SD 911 157
- Coordinates
- 53.63847, -2.13529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wardle War Memorial is a war memorial built in the early 1920s. It is made from polished and rubbed granite and features a square base with a round column. The memorial consists of a Doric column made of polished grey marble, which is topped with a stylised smoothed granite Celtic cross. This column is set on a polished grey granite pedestal that has moulded upper corners and a shouldered base, raised on a square three-stepped plinth.
The front panel of the pedestal is inscribed with the words: "ERECTED / TO THE MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF WARDLE / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR / LIVES FOR US IN THE / GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919." The rear panel contains the inscription: "SONS OF THIS PLACE LET THIS / OF YOU BE SAID / THAT YOU WHO LIVE ARE WORTHY / OF YOUR DEAD / THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT / YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP / A RICHER HARVEST ERE YOU / FALL ASLEEP." The two side panels list the eighty-seven names of those who fell in the First World War.
Additionally, a secondary dedication stone has been added to the base of the pedestal, which reads: "AND IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 – 45," and lists the nineteen names of those who fell in the Second World War. Below this, on the plinth, there is another stone that states: "TO ALL THOSE / WHO DIED IN THE SERVICE / OF / THEIR COUNTRY." The plinth is set on a square base made of tamped pea-gravel, surrounded by concrete edging stones.
Local climate
Wardle War Memorial 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings