War Memorial at South End of Memorial Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
War Memorial at South End of Memorial Drive
- WRENN ID
- under-lancet-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North East MP: Fabian Hamilton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial at South End of Memorial Drive, Green Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 285 371
- Coordinates
- 53.82986, -1.56821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial at the south end of Memorial Drive in Meanwood, Leeds, was built around 1920 to commemorate those who fell in the First World War, with later alterations to honor the fallen of the Second World War. Designed by A.R. Powys for Walter Rowley, the memorial features a hammer-tooled gritstone base and a timber-framed, weather-boarded shelter topped with a stone slate roof that supports a bronze crucifix. The underside of the canopy is plastered and decorated with gold stars on a white background, with blue enamel in Christ's halo.
On the lower part of the rear wall of the shelter, there is carved lettering that reads: 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN PERPETUAL HONOUR OF THE MEN/ OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-18', along with a list of 46 names. It also includes the inscription: 'FORGET NOT THOSE WHO DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE/ EVEN SO DID CHRIST/ MR WALTER ROWLEY OF ALDER HILL MEANWOOD GAVE THIS MEMORIAL/ HIS NEPHEW FELL AT VILLERS=BRETONNEUX, 24 APRIL 1918 RIP'. Additionally, a bronze plaque affixed to the stone base lists 46 names of those who died in the 1939-45 war. A.R. Powys was the brother of the then vicar of Holy Trinity Church and served as a long-time secretary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
Local climate
War Memorial at South End of Memorial Drive receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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