War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- peeling-solder-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Nelson Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 479 615
- Coordinates
- 54.0471, -2.79707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, dedicated in 1924, is located on Nelson Street in Lancaster. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features bronze elements. The design includes a simple screen wall that rises in steps to a taller central section, which supports a bronze statue representing Victory. This statue depicts a winged woman who is crowned with a laurel wreath and carries a palm frond.
On either side of the statue, beneath an inscribed text in Roman lettering that reads "IN HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF LANCASTER/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919," there are five tall recessed bronze panels. These panels bear the names of over 1,000 men, including 63 sets of brothers, who lost their lives during the First World War.
In front of the statue, positioned slightly lower, is a stone tomb-chest that is flanked by square bronze vases. This tomb-chest features bronze plates on its top listing the names of approximately 300 individuals who died in the Second World War and in Korea, with the dates 1939-1945 inscribed on the front.
Local climate
War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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