Peace Cross, Woolton is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 2018. Memorial. 1 related planning application.
Peace Cross, Woolton
- WRENN ID
- nether-hearth-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Garston MP: Maria Eagle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 2018
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Peace Cross, Woolton, Outside the Church of St Peter, Church Road, L25 6HT
- OS grid reference
- SJ 422 869
- Coordinates
- 53.37607, -2.86906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Peace Cross in Woolton is a First World War memorial commemorating the peace of Armistice Day, created around 1919 by designer Robert Gladstone.
Constructed from red sandstone, the cross is situated just outside the churchyard of the Church of St Peter, aligned with the church's east window. It features a Celtic cross design adorned with carved Art Nouveau foliate decoration on both the front and rear faces, which winds up to the cross head. The lower part of the decoration, with its simple foliage, symbolizes the pleasant and normal times in life before war. This transitions to a crown of thorns, representing the agony and horror of war, and culminates in flower buds at the top of the cross, symbolizing the possibilities offered by peace. Below the carved decoration on each face, large relief lettering spells out 'PEACE', and at the base of each face is the inscribed date '11 November 1918'.
Local climate
Peace Cross, Woolton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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