Shardlow War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 2019. War memorial.
Shardlow War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- waning-steeple-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Shardlow War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St James, London Road, Shardlow and Great Wilne, DE72 2GP
- OS grid reference
- SK 437 303
- Coordinates
- 52.86885, -1.35083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shardlow War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made of Darley Dale stone and is located on the church path in the northern part of the churchyard of the Church of St James, which is also listed as Grade II. The memorial is situated next to the Grade II-listed gate piers and railings at the entrance to the churchyard on London Road.
The memorial features a lantern head with a carved figure of Christ on the north face, positioned atop a moulded collar on an octagonal shaft. The base of the shaft is chamfered, transitioning from a square base to an octagon at the top. This shaft rests on an octagonal plinth that has recessed sections on all four sides: north, east, south, and west. The entire structure stands on an octagonal base.
On the north face of the shaft, there is a shield carved in relief that displays the years 1914 and 1918, with the word REMEMBER incised beneath it. The names of those who fell in the First World War are carved into the north-east and north-west faces of the plinth.
Local climate
Shardlow War Memorial 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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