War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1987. Memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- woven-plaster-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1987
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Chapel Street
- OS grid reference
- SE 500 239
- Coordinates
- 53.71002, -1.24394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial in Knottingley, likely built in the 1920s, is made of rock-faced white granite and features a bronze statue. It has a square section and consists of a pillar raised on a pedestal made up of four stepped blocks, each higher than the one below. The third and fourth blocks have lettered panels on the front and sides that read: "IN GLORIOUS AND EVERLASTING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF KNOTTINGLEY WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WARS 1914-1918 1939-1945" on the front of the lower block, along with names on the sides, and names on all three sides of the upper block. The pillar is topped with a moulded cap and a statue of a flying angel, which stands with one foot on a ball, wearing a flowing dress, with outspread wings, and arms raised holding a wreath and a trumpet.
Local climate
War Memorial receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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