Boer War Memorial in Victoria Park is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. War memorial.
Boer War Memorial in Victoria Park
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-tallow-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1993
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Boer War Memorial in Victoria Park, St Helen's Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 416 079
- Coordinates
- 53.56493, -2.88234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boer War memorial in Victoria Park, Ormskirk, dates from around 1905 and is made of red sandstone with bronze plaques. It is designed in the form of an obelisk, featuring a square base with square corner piers that are approximately 1 metre high. The piers are slightly tapered and have sides carved in narrow panels with floral patterns in the Art Nouveau style. On the east side of the base, between the piers, there is a bronze panel with raised lettering that reads: "TO THE MEMORY OF BRAVE / MEN WHO HAVE FOUGHT / FOR THEIR COUNTRY THIS / COLUMN HAS BEEN ERECTED / BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION."
Above the square pedestal of the obelisk is another plaque, which is headed with the words: "SERGT. MAJOR NUNNERLY OF THE 17TH LANCERS ONE OF THE SIX HUNDRED. DIED NOVEMBER 22ND 1905." This commemorates a survivor from the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, who later became a draper in Ormskirk. Below this plaque are the name and details of one Boer War casualty. The west side features a similar plaque that lists the details of two other Boer War casualties.
Local climate
Boer War Memorial in Victoria Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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