War Memorial and Steps in Front of Chesterfield Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Chesterfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1999. A Modern War memorial. 3 related planning applications.
War Memorial and Steps in Front of Chesterfield Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- gilded-copper-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chesterfield
- Constituency
- Chesterfield MP: Mr Toby Perkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1999
- Type
- War memorial
- Period
- Modern
- Address
- War Memorial and Steps in Front of Chesterfield Town Hall, Rose Hill, S40 1LP
- OS grid reference
- SK 379 711
- Coordinates
- 53.23632, -1.43247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial and Steps in front of Chesterfield Town Hall were built between 1933 and 1938, designed by AJ Hope of Bradshaw Gass and Hope, with the war memorial added in 1954. Constructed from Portland stone, the steps lead up to a semi-circular terrace that features a balustrade. This terrace includes a raised platform at the back, which has a semi-circular wall that is partly rusticated and topped with console brackets and a shallow pediment. On either side of the steps, which rise in two short flights to road level, there are balustrades that extend to the left and right, ending in piers that support oval stone planting urns.
At the center of the top balustrade is a chest tomb war memorial, elevated on a single step, with bronze torches on either side of the rear wall, which is flanked by stepped piers and topped with a pediment. The balustrades on either side are also finished with oval stone planting urns. This structure was designed to enhance the formal approach to the new Town Hall, and the war memorial was unveiled by the Duke of Devonshire on May 8, 1954.
Local climate
War Memorial and Steps in Front of Chesterfield Town Hall receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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