War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1988. War memorial.

War Memorial

WRENN ID
late-paling-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 August 1988
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial, Church Road, Bickerstaffe
OS grid reference
SD 445 042
Coordinates
53.53194, -2.83832
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The war memorial, dating from around 1920, is made of limestone and has a square plan. The base features chamfered square piers at each corner and is elevated on three steps. The memorial is adorned with slim diagonal buttresses that have crocketed pinnacles. At the center, the cross shaft is also crocketed and displays a cross fleury inscribed with a sacred monogram.

Local climate

War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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