War Memorial in St Mary's Churchyard, Davyhulme is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 2014. War memorial.
War Memorial in St Mary's Churchyard, Davyhulme
- WRENN ID
- weathered-mortar-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Stretford and Urmston MP: Andrew Western (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 2014
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SJ 757 956
- Coordinates
- 53.45679, -2.3672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial is situated in the center of St Mary's churchyard, next to Davyhulme Road, north of the Grade II listed Church of St Mary the Virgin. It features a Celtic cross mounted on a stepped plinth, which is surrounded by a very low sandstone wall added in 1960 that creates a raised planting bed. The south face of the cross displays a relief carving of a sword, and the base includes small relief bronze lettering listing the names of 21 men from the parish who were killed, including three family names that appear more than once. Just below, the plinth has additional bronze lettering that states, "IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM THE CHURCH/ AND SCHOOLS OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918." The west face of the plinth features the inscription, "REMEMBER BEFORE GOD THE GALLANT SOULS/ WHOSE NAMES ARE WRITTEN HERE," while the east face carries the words, "THEIR MEMORY WILL NEVER DIE."
Local climate
War Memorial in St Mary's Churchyard, Davyhulme sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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