War Memorial in Front of Cunard Building is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. War memorial. 4 related planning applications.

War Memorial in Front of Cunard Building

WRENN ID
brooding-threshold-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1975
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial in Front of Cunard Building, Georges Pier Head, L3 1DG
OS grid reference
SJ 338 902
Coordinates
53.40494, -2.99611
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The war memorial located in front of the Cunard Building commemorates the First and Second World Wars and was created around 1920. It features a granite pedestal topped by a tall, unfluted column with a copper capital adorned with an anchor design on a rope fillet. Atop the column stands a copper figure of Victory, depicted nude and holding a laurel wreath, with a shield and drapery, positioned on the prow of a ship. The column's shaft is designed as a columna rostrata, which is decorated with the beaks of ships.

Local climate

War Memorial in Front of Cunard Building 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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