Urmston Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 2016. Memorial cross.

Urmston Memorial Cross

WRENN ID
endless-facade-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Trafford
Constituency
Stretford and Urmston MP: Andrew Western (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 2016
Type
Memorial cross
Address
Urmston Memorial Cross, Golden Hill Park, Crofts Bank Road, Greater Manchester, M41 0UB
OS grid reference
SJ 765 949
Coordinates
53.45081, -2.35408
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Urmston Memorial Cross is located in Golden Hill Park, north of the Police Station and facing Crofts Bank Road. It is a tall granite Celtic cross, featuring richly ornamented front and rear faces with intricate interlace patterns carved in low relief. On the front face, there is a reversed sword. The cross rises from a tapering pedestal, which stands on a four-stepped base.

The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the pedestal reads "IN LASTING MEMORY OF THOSE WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918." Below this, on the front face of the deepest step of the base, there is a later dedication that states "ALSO IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945." The rear of the pedestal is inscribed with "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND COUNTRY," and to the side, it reads "LEST WE FORGET."

Local climate

Urmston Memorial Cross 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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