West Derby War Memorial is a Grade II* listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 2001. Memorial.
West Derby War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- third-tracery-hemlock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston MP: Ms Marie Rimmer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 2001
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- West Derby War Memorial, Junction of St Helens Road and Burrow's Lane, Eccleston Lane Ends, Prescot, Liverpool, L34 6JN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 473 933
- Coordinates
- 53.43398, -2.7936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Derby War Memorial is a First World War memorial erected in 1922, designed by Walter Gilbert and Louis Weingartner, with founders and stonemasons HH Martyn & Co from Cheltenham.
The memorial is located at the north-west corner of the junction of St Helen’s Road and Burrows Lane, in a paved area surrounded by brick walls, gates, and railings. It features a battered square Portland stone pedestal on a three-tier stepped plinth, which supports a life-size bronze statue of a junior army officer. The officer is depicted raising his field glasses in his left hand and holding a revolver in his right, with his left foot resting on a Prussian helmet. His dress and weaponry are detailed. Additionally, a life-size bronze figure of a woman in contemporary dress is shown climbing the steps of the plinth, reaching upwards to offer a laurel branch to the soldier.
A bronze relief panel wraps around the four faces of the pedestal, illustrating marching soldiers, airmen, soldiers with camels, and seamen loading a naval gun in an anti-clockwise arrangement. The panels are inscribed with the words: "THE LAURELS OF THE / SONS ARE WATERED / FROM THE HEARTS / OF THE MOTHERS."
On the front (south-east) face of the pedestal, there is a stone tablet inscribed with: "TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY / OF ALL THOSE FROM THE / WEST DERBY HUNDRED OF / THE COUNTY PALATINE OF / LANCASTER WHO FOUGHT / & GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR / THEIR KING & COUNTRY IN / THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918."
Local climate
West Derby War Memorial 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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