Men of Rainhill War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Men of Rainhill War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- quartered-mullion-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston MP: Ms Marie Rimmer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Men of Rainhill War Memorial Cross, Churchyard of the Church of St Ann, Warrington Road, Merseyside, L35 0LE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 493 912
- Coordinates
- 53.41557, -2.76285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Men of Rainhill War Memorial Cross is a First World War memorial built in 1920, made of red sandstone. It is situated in the north-east corner of the churchyard of the Grade II listed Church of St Ann, overlooking the junction of Warrington Road and St James Road. The memorial features a slender sandstone wheel-headed cross on a collared shaft, with cusped wheel segments and a moulded base. The tapering octagonal shaft rises from a tapered and shouldered pedestal, which is set on a three-stepped base. The north face of the foot of the cross shaft is inscribed with "TO THE GLORY OF GOD," while the north face of the pedestal below reads, "AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF RAINHILL MEN WHO WERE FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919 'THEIR NAME LIVETH EVERMORE'." The names of the 37 fallen soldiers are recorded on the remaining sides of the pedestal.
Local climate
Men of Rainhill War Memorial Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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