Cheadle War Memorial, High Street, Cheadle, Stockport is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 2015. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Cheadle War Memorial, High Street, Cheadle, Stockport
- WRENN ID
- standing-quoin-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Cheadle MP: Tom Morrison (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Cheadle War Memorial, High Street, Cheadle, Stockport, SK8 1LY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 859 887
- Coordinates
- 53.39562, -2.21287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cheadle War Memorial, located on High Street in Cheadle, Stockport, commemorates the soldiers who fell during the First and Second World Wars. Designed in the inter-war period by an unknown designer, it is made of white granite and features bronze plaques.
The memorial consists of a rough-hewn, rock-faced white granite obelisk that stands on a large, squared pedestal with tapering sides and a chamfered top. This pedestal is supported by a deeply chamfered plinth. On the front face of the pedestal, there is a bronze plaque bordered with a Greek key design. This plaque features a relief inscription that reads "TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE / OF THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919," accompanied by a relief laurel wreath with the name "CHEADLE" in the center. Below this, the inscription includes Psalm 102, verse 18: "THIS SHALL BE WRITTEN FOR THOSE THAT COME AFTER AND THE / PEOPLE WHICH SHALL BE BORN SHALL PRAISE THE LORD."
The left and right faces of the pedestal each display a large, inset, rectangular bronze plaque with a Greek key border that lists the names of the men who died in the First World War in raised lettering. The rear face features a similar bronze plaque that records those who died in the Second World War, including eight names under the title "AIR RAID VICTIMS."
Surrounding the memorial is a low, square fence made of rough-hewn granite posts at each corner, with lower central posts linked by chains.
Local climate
Cheadle War Memorial, High Street, Cheadle, Stockport sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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