Heswall War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 2016. War memorial.
Heswall War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- weathered-buttress-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Heswall War Memorial, Junction of Dawstone Road and School Hill, Wirrall, CH60 0DL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 268 814
- Coordinates
- 53.32527, -3.10018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Heswall War Memorial is located at the corner of Dawstone Road and School Hill, opposite the Dee View, at the northern edge of Dawstone Park. It is set in a walled garden that overlooks the River Dee to the south-west. The memorial is made of red sandstone and features a three-stepped square base topped by a square plinth. Rising from the plinth is a short, tapering column that is square in plan and finished with a pedimented capital. Atop the capital is a plain Celtic cross.
The front face of the column is decorated with a small stone wreath carved in relief. The main dedicatory inscription on a panel at the front of the plinth reads: "TO THE MEMORY OF/ THOSE OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918/ AND OF THOSE OF/ WIRRAL URBAN DISTRICT/ WHO FELL IN WORLD WAR II/ 1939 – 1945." The two side panels of the plinth list the names of those who died in the First World War. The rear panel states: "TO THE MEMORY OF/ THOSE CIVILIANS OF THIS PARISH/ KILLED BY ENEMY ACTION IN/ WORLD WAR II 1939 – 1945/ (7 NAMES)."
The memorial is situated in a paved area that is enclosed by a low curved stone wall, with a chain suspended on low posts along the roadside. On either side of the memorial, two stones display plaques listing the names of 104 local servicemen who died during the Second World War. A traffic mirror located at the rear of the garden is not of special interest.
Local climate
Heswall War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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