Codnor Park and Ironville War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 2018. War memorial.
Codnor Park and Ironville War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tilted-crypt-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Amber Valley MP: Linsey Farnsworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Codnor Park and Ironville War Memorial, Churchyard of Christ Church, Casson Street, Derbyshire, NG16 5NN
- OS grid reference
- SK 435 519
- Coordinates
- 53.06269, -1.35095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Codnor Park and Ironville War Memorial is a war memorial erected in 1923, built by Mr. Edward Cope of Riddings. It is made of roughly-hewn granite with lead lettering painted black.
Located to the south side of the tower of Christ Church, which is also a Grade II listed building, the memorial features a Celtic-style wheel cross with a tapered shaft. This cross is mounted on a tapered rectangular plinth that has a two-stepped square base, all set on a flat square platform. The south face of the cross head and shaft displays a sword carved in relief, complete with three ball clusters at the pommel and ends of the cross guard. The inscriptions, also in lead lettering, are found on the south face of the memorial within recessed panels.
The inscription at the base of the shaft reads "1914 / THEY DIED / THAT WE / MIGHT LIVE / 1918." Below this, the names of thirty-five men from the parish who died during the First World War are inscribed on the plinth. Additionally, the date "1939 – 1945" has been added along with the names of nine men who died during the Second World War. The top step of the base bears the inscription “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS.”
A path of cut paving stones extends from the south side of the memorial to the boundary wall, continuing alongside it until it reaches the south gateway.
Local climate
Codnor Park and Ironville War Memorial receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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