St Mary's Church War Memorial, Buxton is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 2017. War memorial.
St Mary's Church War Memorial, Buxton
- WRENN ID
- twisted-spandrel-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- St Mary's Church War Memorial, Buxton, St Mary the Virgin's Churchyard, Dale Road, SK17 6LP
- OS grid reference
- SK 058 729
- Coordinates
- 53.25359, -1.91336
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's Church War Memorial is situated in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin Church, facing Dale Road. It features a limestone canopied crucifix atop a tapered chamfered square pillar, which rises from a square chamfered stone plinth. The base and plinth are constructed from a reinforced concrete base, with coursed ashlar and rubble stone limestone.
The inscriptions on the plinth honor the men of Buxton who lost their lives during the First World War. The front face of the memorial reads 1914 – 1918/ OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ R.I.P.
Local climate
St Mary's Church War Memorial, Buxton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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