Church Stretton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 2015. War memorial.
Church Stretton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- keen-thatch-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SO 452 939
- Coordinates
- 52.54035, -2.80928
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church Stretton War Memorial is a town memorial dedicated in 1920. It is made of limestone and designed as a Celtic wheel-head cross with a tapered shaft that rises from a rectangular base featuring a sloping upper surface. The base is surrounded by inscribed marble plaques on its sides and upper surface. The memorial is flush with the surrounding grass and has a low railing from the late 20th century on all sides. It is located to the north-west of the town centre, on the lower slopes of Bodbury Hill.
The south face of the monument features Celtic interlace decoration on the cross head, arms, and upper shaft. The lower shaft is adorned with a sword carved in relief, and the edges of the cross and arms have cable mouldings. The north face mirrors this design, with interlaced decoration on the upper body of the cross. However, the lower body of the cross shaft is inscribed with the words: “FORGET NOT / THE MEN / OF / CHURCH / STRETTON / WHO FOUGHT / FOR GOD / KING / AND COUNTRY / IN THE / GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919 / AND IN / THE SECOND / WORLD WAR / 1939 – 1945.” The flanks of the cross are blank. The base's south face is inscribed with “INSCRIBED ARE THE NAMES / OF THOSE WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES,” while the flanks and north face list the names of the fallen, as do the marble plaques on the sloping upper surfaces of the base.
Local climate
Church Stretton War Memorial receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% 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 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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