Monkhopton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Monkhopton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- still-sill-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Monkhopton War Memorial, Churchyard of Church of St Peter, WV16 6SB
- OS grid reference
- SO 625 934
- Coordinates
- 52.53742, -2.55302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Monkhopton War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921 and restored in 2000. It features a stone base, which is a former cider press, topped with an oak cross and a bronze plaque.
The memorial has a circular roughhewn base and plinth with tooling, made from the inverted cider press. The restored oak shaft rises to a simple Latin cross, which includes carved detailing.
On the front face of the plinth, there is a plaque that reads: "IN MEMORY OF SYDNEY DOWNES. ARTHUR EDWARDS AND OF ALL WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES TO SAVE THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918." Above this, fixed to the base of the cross shaft, is a modern metal plaque that states: "IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY THIS RESTORED CROSS WAS REDEDICATED ON SEPTEMBER 10TH 2000."
Local climate
Monkhopton War Memorial receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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