Audenshaw War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1987. War memorial.

Audenshaw War Memorial

WRENN ID
dreaming-parapet-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tameside
Constituency
Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1987
Type
War memorial
Address
Audenshaw War Memorial, Cemetery Road
OS grid reference
SJ 928 965
Coordinates
53.46536, -2.10989
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Audenshaw War Memorial, created around 1920, is a war memorial designed by sculptor P. G. Bentham and cast at Albion Art Foundry. It features a bronze statue of a battle-clad figure holding a gun, which stands on a tall square shaft. The shaft has a plain pediment and displays rolls of honour on each side. The memorial includes a plinth and stylobate, along with various inscriptions.

Local climate

Audenshaw War Memorial 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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