Knowsley War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Knowsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 2019. Memorial.
Knowsley War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- old-chimney-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Knowsley
- Constituency
- Knowsley MP: Anneliese Midgley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 2019
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Knowsley War Memorial, May Pole Green, L34 9BD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 434 959
- Coordinates
- 53.4573, -2.85331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Knowsley War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920 by Thomas Wickford Potter, with additions for the Second World War. It is made of Portland stone ashlar for the cross and has a pink-coloured stone-set surround.
The memorial features a Latin cross with the main elevation facing southeast. The sides of the cross are gently canted, and it has hollowed semi-circular intersections. The central roundel displays a Lancaster rose carved in relief. All sides of the cross have panels created by narrow incised lines.
The cross stands on a square battered plinth with rounded upper surfaces. On the southeast elevation of the plinth, there is a rebated tablet with gilded incised lettering that reads: "IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 AND WORLD WAR 1939-1945." The plinth is raised off a base formed by two stone steps, surrounded by a square-plan stone-set area.
Local climate
Knowsley War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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