Mercantile Marine War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 2018. Memorial.
Mercantile Marine War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- deep-gutter-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 2018
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Mercantile Marine War Memorial, Prenton Lane, Junction with Osmaston Road, Prenton, CH42 8LB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 306 861
- Coordinates
- 53.36771, -3.04415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mercantile Marine War Memorial is a First World War memorial drinking fountain, built before 1936. It is made of limestone and is situated at the junction of Osmaston Road and Prenton Lane, set on a circular area of flag paving. The fountain consists of four stone blocks: a shaped plinth that serves as a step up to the front south face, and three large square blocks above featuring carved rope moulding detail at the four corners.
The fountain bowl, located on the front south face, is designed to resemble a ship’s prow, complete with a clinker-built hull, a prominent keel, and a stylised ram’s prow with volute scrolling. Above the bowl, there is a rough, squared patch of stone where the faucet would have been, and an incised cutting along with a rough semicircle beneath the bowl indicates the former drain. The north face of the fountain displays the inscription "IN RECOGNITION OF THE GALLANT SERVICES RENDERED BY THE MERCANTILE MARINE DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919," with a carved roundel above that depicts an alisee patee cross.
Local climate
Mercantile Marine 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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