Belgian War Memorial at City Road Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1995. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.

Belgian War Memorial at City Road Cemetery

WRENN ID
veiled-porch-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Constituency
Sheffield Heeley MP: Louise Haigh (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 December 1995
Type
War memorial
Address
Belgian War Memorial at City Road Cemetery, S2 1GF
OS grid reference
SK 375 862
Coordinates
53.3716, -1.43712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Belgian War Memorial at City Road Cemetery is a war memorial built around 1920. It is made of ashlar stone and features slate panels. The memorial has a tapered octagonal cross shaft with panelled sides and decorative fleurons, topped with a crucifix set within a quatrefoil. The pedestal is an unequal-sided octagon with inscribed Westmorland slate panels on its four larger sides. It stands on a square base that is set in a square of paving and surrounded by a kerb. This memorial commemorates Belgian soldiers and refugees who died in Sheffield during the First World War.

Local climate

Belgian War Memorial at City Road Cemetery receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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