Hesketh Bank War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 2017. War memorial.
Hesketh Bank War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- nether-porch-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Hesketh Bank War Memorial, All Saint's Churchyard, Station Road, Hesketh-With-Becconsall, PR4 6SQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 446 232
- Coordinates
- 53.70265, -2.8403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hesketh Bank War Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the First and Second World Wars, erected around 1920, with the names of those who fell in the Second World War added after 1945.
Carved from granite, the memorial is located in the churchyard of All Saints Church, immediately to the west of the church tower. It features a granite Celtic cross adorned with raised interlace and knotwork, which is set on a tapering shaft that rises from a quarry-faced plinth on a two-tiered square base. The cross and shaft stand approximately 1.5 meters high, while the plinth is about 1 meter high.
On the front (west) face of the plinth, there is an incised lead inscription that reads: "THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THE/ PARISHIONERS OF HESKETH-WITH-BECCONSALL/ IN GRATEFUL/ AND AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE/ OF THEIR BROTHERS/ NAMED ABOVE WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919./ AND ALSO IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945/ WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE/ THEY CHOSE THE BEST/ THEY SPRANG TO DUTY'S CALL/ THEY STOOD THE TEST./ 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.'" The names of those who died are inscribed in lead lettering on the front of the shaft.
Surrounding the memorial is a stone kerb that forms an enclosure approximately 3 meters square, featuring four pyramid-capped stone posts at the corners, inscribed with the years 1914, 1919, and 1939, 1945.
Local climate
Hesketh Bank War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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