Prenton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 2018. War memorial.
Prenton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- peeling-clay-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Prenton War Memorial, Public Garden at the Junction of Prenton Lane and Osmaston Road, CH42 8LB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 306 861
- Coordinates
- 53.36798, -3.04403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Prenton War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled on 6 August 1920. It was created by the architectural firm Briggs, Wolstenholme & Thornley of Liverpool, with sculptural work by Frank Thomas and Son of Oxton.
Constructed from Yorkshire sandstone, the memorial features slate inscription plaques. It is located within a landscaped memorial garden and is positioned on a two-stepped, coped plinth. The memorial has an octagonal three-tiered design that includes elaborate carved decoration. The lowest tier has slate panels on each face that display the memorial's inscriptions. A cornice, supported by eight cartouches with crossed palm leaves and hanging festoons, separates this tier from the second tier.
The inscriptions on the memorial are arranged anti-clockwise starting from the south face, and they read as follows:
Tablet one: IN HONOUR/ OF/ THE MEN OF/ THIS/ PARISH/ WHO SERVED/ IN THE/ GREAT/ EUROPEAN/ WAR/ 1914-1919
Tablet two: DIED FOR THEIR/ COUNTRY/ [NAMES]
Tablets three-six: SERVED ABROAD/ [NAMES]
Tablet seven: SERVED ABROAD/ [NAMES]/ SERVED AT HOME/ [NAMES]
Tablet eight: DIED FOR THEIR/ COUNTRY/ [NAMES]
The second tier of the memorial features double panels of open tracery on each face, topped by a cornice. The top tier includes bas-relief panels on each face and has a cornice above. At the very top, there is a Celtic cross with small urns at each corner, although some of these urns appear to be missing.
Local climate
Prenton War Memorial 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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