War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. A Interwar War memorial. 1 related planning application.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- shifting-lantern-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- War memorial
- Period
- Interwar
- Address
- War Memorial, Cambridge Street
- OS grid reference
- SE 242 241
- Coordinates
- 53.7131, -1.6339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial in Batley, located on Cambridge Street, was erected in 1923 to commemorate those who served in the First World War. It features a slightly larger than life bronze figure of an infantryman holding a rifle, which stands on a square stone column with a cornice, resting on a square base. The column is inscribed with the words:
IN
GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF
THE MEN OF THIS TOWN
WHO FELL
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918
AND
IN THE WORLD WAR
1939-1945
Surrounding the memorial is a circular boundary wall that includes four iron gates and iron railings. There are twelve bronze plaques listing the names of those who fell, along with two additional plaques that honor those from the 1939-1945 war and subsequent campaigns.
Local climate
War Memorial receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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