Standish Pillar War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 2015. War memorial.
Standish Pillar War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- secret-corridor-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Standish Pillar War Memorial, Jubilee Memorial Garden, Junction of High Street and Church Street, WN6 0HD
- OS grid reference
- SD 563 099
- Coordinates
- 53.58461, -2.66024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Standish Pillar War Memorial is located in the center of a small triangular garden, which was established to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The garden also features the Grade II-listed Jubilee Drinking Fountain. The memorial is constructed from polished red granite and consists of an urn atop a squat column, resting on a square three-stage stone pedestal that is set on two steps. It stands just over 2 meters tall. The front of the pedestal has an inscription that reads:
(upper stage) STANDISH/ WAR MEMORIAL./ 1914-1919.
(middle stage) THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
(lower stage) SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939-45/ ROLL OF HONOUR
The names of the fallen are inscribed on the other faces of the plinth.
Local climate
Standish Pillar War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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