Great Altcar War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 2016. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Great Altcar War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- seventh-pilaster-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Great Altcar War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Lord Sefton Way, L37 5AG
- OS grid reference
- SD 319 065
- Coordinates
- 53.55089, -3.02809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Altcar War Memorial is a sandstone structure standing approximately 3.6 meters high, featuring a wheel-head cross. The cross is adorned with a carved fleur de lis design intertwined with the ‘IHS’ Christogram at its center, and decorative ropework edging surrounds the wheel.
The cross is mounted on an oblong tapering shaft, which sits atop an oblong tapered plinth that has a projecting cornice. Both the southern and northern faces of the plinth display a wreath carved in relief.
An inscription is carved on indented panels on the southern face of the plinth, which reads: "THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED BY THE / PEOPLE OF ALTCAR TO THE HONOUR / OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO / FOUGHT FOR GOD & KING, FREEDOM, / RIGHT & PEACE. AND IN GRATEFUL / MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR / LIVES FOR US IN THE GREAT WAR, / 1914-1918, AND WHOSE NAMES ARE / HEREON INSCRIBED."
The eastern face of the plinth lists the names of those who fell in the First World War, while the western face bears the names of those who fell in the Second World War.
The plinth is set on a base of two steps, which also features an inscription on the eastern face, located beneath the First World War names on the plinth, reading: "SEE YE TO IT THAT THESE MEN / SHALL NOT HAVE FOUGHT IN VAIN."
Local climate
Great Altcar 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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