War Memorial, St Stephen's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Erewash local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 2016. Memorial.
War Memorial, St Stephen's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- young-corridor-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Erewash
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire MP: Jonathan Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SK 416 344
- Coordinates
- 52.90572, -1.38152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial located in St Stephen's Churchyard is a First World War memorial erected in 1920. It features stonework by Samuel Hodgkinson of Borrowash and a bronze sculpture of the crucified Christ by Alfred Mowbray and Company of Oxford.
The memorial is constructed with a sandstone base and plinth, an oak cross, and a canopy that was re-covered with slate in the early 21st century. It has an octagonal plan.
Facing north-west, the memorial takes the form of a calvary cross. It consists of a two-step base, a deep plinth, and a canopied oak cross that supports the bronze sculpture. The north-west face of the plinth is inscribed with the words: ‘IN / GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE HEROIC DEAD / 1914 – 1919’. A second inscription at the base of the plinth reads: ‘GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS’. There are no names recorded on the memorial.
Local climate
War Memorial, St Stephen's Churchyard sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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